The Woman is Pure Evil

[Zues126]

I get where you're coming from Ginger...I am not sure I disagree...I am not sure how I feel about it at all. I guess I don't believe in rainbows and unicorns anymore.

It's like my economics teacher used to say. He said "People say a human life is priceless, and that you can't put a price on a human life. But that's BS. Go on down to the DMV and talk to the city planners. They're the ones that figure out whether to put in a stop light at an intersection, or leave it as a stop sign, or whatever. They look at lives lost per year, what their budget is, and the do the best they can. But there is a point at which they know they could save another x lives with y more in the budget. Do the math, and that is EXACTLY what our society thinks a human life is worth." I'm not throwing stones at the DMV, we all do the best we can as a society and they have to work with what they have to work with. But he has a point, the idea that it is priceless is a bit naive.

A love that isn't based on self interest that somehow stands the test of time, well, it hasn't been proven to me that it exists. Most marriages I know wouldn't have lasted if not for a lot of things like finances, children, and many other glues that bonded them together. The idea that it should hold up due to a mature, mutually rewarding, eternal love...I just haven't seen that happen. Not saying it's impossible, I just haven't seen it yet. What I have seen is a whole lot of divorce because one or both parties chase that ideal.

Again, no firm conclusions. I'm not saying I'd go so far as to find a woman without citizenship that needed me to remain in the country, depended on me financially, and couldn't scratch the surface on the life that I could provide for her elsewhere is necessarily the way I'm planning on finding a future Mrs. Zues...but I'm not saying it isn't. I'm kinda kidding around here, the truth is it's the last thing on my mind, but I get why it's a debate many guys wrestle with after seeing this play out. That and the debate of whether to ever take the chance again after going through the system and coming to grips with the reality of what is really happening these days (instead of what we wished we could find).

RDS, it stinks. It really does. I've given you my two mantras: 1) how I'll take it on the chin knowing that it's the price I have to pay to live in a country where legitimately hard up single moms have protection against dead beat dads, and 2) how we are still in the historical top .01% of every king that ever lived, and we need to be appreciative daily of that fact and never lose sight of it.

In other words, yes, this will be the worst thing that probably ever happens to you, but our lives still have meaning, and there are a lot of people that have it worse...