Miss Kolka

Sitting in a restaurant the other day, I was very involved in a discussion about marriage - why people get married - how life has changed nowadays exc. I have been maybe a bit silly during the years but I've told anyone who want's to hear it that I don't plan to marry when I grow up. Of course I would love a big family and all but since I was a child I didn't really see a point in getting married, It wasn't something I was aiming for personally and I don't consider marriage more of a commitment than having children lets say or a pet. Also I consider that it would be more of a contract between two people today,obvioulsy quite easy to break, that an actual commitment for life  (maybe there I'm wrong) and that in our day and age marriage is not the same it was a only a century ago when it really was "until death do us part". But only stupid people never change their minds...

That evening at the restaurant, there was a stranger sitting at the next table. A good looking man with white hair and a white beard eating by himself with headphones in his ears, maybe listening to music, some news or whatever else people listen to when they eat alone in restaurants, he didn't seem to pay much attention to us. When leaving the table - long after the famous marriage discussion - he pauses for a second and turns to me, adressing me with a perfect american accent:

"young lady, let me tell you something. I was married for 46 years and there is only one reason in the world to get married - you simply are swept away by the other person."

And then he left.

Well, maybe its because I am a child of divorced parents, maybe its because I don't like disappointment (who does?) or maybe I have been so naive to think that I could avoid it by not getting married - I don't know...I sure like wedding parties.. and beautiful white dresses, that's for sure. Whether I will ever have both the same day is another matter...

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