Do You Want To Be Happily Married?
What happens when two different individuals marry each other?The result is this:
You can bet that’s what you’re going to see after about ten years or so;
The husband becomes pot-bellied, lazy and ignorant and starts to spend more time with his hobbies, or either find new ones (motorbikes, sports car, video games – you know, the typical guy stuff).
The wife becomes obese and develops high-blood pressure due to dealing with brats from hell, or what she calls her children.
The children are the exact clones of their parents – only ten times worse. They are the most obnoxious, selfish and spoil little people you have ever met, and they tend to show their true sides in public places like the supermarkets or the mall.
So obviously you don’t want the same thing happens to you, right?
Well the answer is pretty simple – stop thinking that ‘Getting married and having kids’ are the ultimate goals and achievements in life.
Find a partner that brings out the best in you and changes your life so that you can finally find your purpose; and no, it’s not ‘to get married and have kids’, unless you think you can do a brilliant job on it and actually do the world a greater good by doing so, then by all means go ahead and do it.
Imagine what it feels like to be stuck in a situation where you’re obese, unhappy, having bills to pay and brats to raise, not being able to make love to your partner because you’ve both fat and undesirable, and the last but not least, having to deal with all of the above for the rest of your life.
Pretty scary isn’t’ it?
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welllllll not on the mothers who can afford it! since they for sure don’t take care of their children and can afford liposuction.
I don’t do liposuction (although there are some parts I’d like to make small hehehe) i guess having to chase the kids help u with the exercise. What did that woman do? Chase her kids with wheelchair I suppose
Sound idea: marriage and children are not life’s ultimate goals. Indeed: no one should smother his or her potentials by petty bourgeois “ideals”.
And another sound idea: women should not obey what the beauty maffia tells them they should look like.
However getting fed up with each other every now and then does happen, even if you avoid matrimony.
And about fat people.. Heavy, overweight men and big girls can and do make love and can and do so gloriously. At least that’s what I’m told.
I agreed with this –> stop thinking that ‘Getting married and having kids’ are the ultimate goals and achievements in life.
It’s not, but somehow the society makes it like that. Social pressure
I bet every moms with 30 y.o daughter will worry to death seeing their daughter still single at that age, and they will push the daughter to get married, soon.
@Cn:
Yes, but by the time they do it the distance is already there and even if these two people had the perfect figures of a man and woman, they were still different individuals who after about 10 years or so of marriage realized there was nothing common between them except their children.
@Ivy:
The comic is actually a depiction of my auntie’s marriage, which I witnessed myself. When they were still courting, her husband would send her love letters, teddy bears and Hallmark cards even if she wasn’t at all interested in him.
And now that they’re married with children, they don’t even speak to each other except to tell of the kids. It’s a depressing view.
@Colson:
The whole fed-up thing can be avoided if one chooses the right partner. I see many couples who are together but the presence of the other halves make no difference whatsoever (as in change their lives in a significant way rather than just saying, ‘Ah I found the perfect figure for the mother/father of my child). What usually happens afterwards is the husband will be too busy earning money while the wife is busy taking care the children.
I used to have a manager whose husband actually worked overseas for three years just so the family could live comfortably. It’s ironic isn’t considering the reason they got married in the first place was because they wanted to be together?
@Ecky:
Hi, Ecky, nice to meet u
I’m turning 26 this year and already got the pressure on my back!
When I actually target myself to get married when I turn 30 ha3x..
Sadly for some people – mostly women – your life isn’t complete if you are not married. If you are married, you’re not complete without kids. When you have kids, another race begins, starts from how high the IQ your kids have, which uni they enter, how much money they make, and when they’re getting married!!
That’s why I already posted a piece in my blog, asking everyone to stop the race.
But it’s part of Asian culture, where meddling people’s private life isn’t considered a taboo. However, seeing my single friends who are happy and fabulous in their 30s, I have hope for our nation. A little bit…
Gong Xi Fa Cai, Xin Nien Khuai Le
Finally… I can leave comment here… hope it’s work
I have exactly the same idea as you. Leaving my teenage stage, I then realized that life is not only a matter of getting married. And ‘living happily ever after’ just happens in fairytales. Of course, someday, I will get married if I find my Mr.Right. But I hope that getting married won’t take my freedom to reach my dreams (yeah, I dream to be a good mother and good wife, but it’s just one of other billion dreams).
Oh I just want to say how I love your comic strip! You should collect them all and create an anthology.
@Finally woken:
The best attitude in dealing with people who meddle with other’s personal lives and criticise 30+ women for being single is simple:
IGNORE.
I myself have the following motto:
The more you try to convince me, the more I’m convinced to do otherwise, ha3x.
@Pitshu:
Gong Xi Fa Cai to you too … gimana acara Imlek-nya, sukses ngga?
@Ria:
Oh, living happily ever after is definitely possible, as long as we trust everything to God and never stop believing that there is someone out there who is exactly your other half.
I think the reason why most people settle down is due to external pressures; parents and relatives asking “When, when when”, people saying that you’re too old, or people saying “What else are you waiting for? he’s a good enough man to be with.”
Well, I don’t want someone who is good enough, I want someone who is best for me
@Jennie:
Hey, thanks for dropping by! That’s exactly what I was thinking too. I have to put this drawing talent to good use, though right he3x.
acara imleknya berjalan dengan sukses kok
what happen with your tagboard and cn’s?? When I’m finally free to comment, none of your tags work =.=
@Ivy:
Seriously? But it works fine from here though?
happiness is within yourself.. (nyambung gak ya?)
@Diah:
Nyambung-nyambung aja … hi3x… salam kenal ya…
err… am I thinking the right way?
coz.. I already put in mind that my goal is having a nice sweet and warm family, loving husband and cute kids..
is that… possible to be? =__=
jadi takut nihhhhhh gyaaaaaaaaaa………
or am I too naive? am I too young and immature to understand this?? #_#
@Emmy:
Hmm well… if you ask me, the hardest thing to achieve is to have a sweet and warm family because it seems so easy to have but it needs a lot of time and you need to sacrifice a lot of things too. Because once you start having families the love of your husband is not going to be only for you anymore.
Cute kids also grow up and they will become adults… I personally don’t want to have kids because it’s a huge responsibility and way too selfish for me to have children with the same excuse that other people are having: “So that I can have someone to take care of me when I’m old.”