Fifty years married and forty five of them divorced!

By Stanley Collymore

Sociologists and statisticians might be rather

amused by the information volunteered to

them and even take a designated interest

in this exceptionally detailed and now

related marital outcome, but it’s

also extremely unlikely, even within

the proverbial thoughtful and pensively

engaged in moment of sombre reflexion

that it would realistically grab

the complete attention of far less so

seriously encourage anyone else’s

enthusiastic curiosity or general

conjecture, with regard to this  

uncommon and connubial

situation, other than of

the aforementioned

sociologists and

statisticians.

And with good reason too! For why

should it, when in quite ordinary

situations spousal participants

who have been this long and

so incompatibly entangled

with each other are either singly 

or else conjointly dead, and

therefore in referencing them

there’s customarily nothing

of note to honestly reflect

upon as regards to their

bilateral relationship,

or for that matter to

be interestingly or

publicly declared.

And if the Grim Reaper who decisively

and unquestionably has the final say

on these sorts of matters has, of

his own choice, intentionally,

capriciously, leniently or

even magnanimously, take your

pick, decided to adopt a hands

-off attitude as regards this

most unusual couple and

their 50-years old roller

coaster relationship, what

right then has anyone

to arbitrarily stand

in opposition by

acting contrarily? And

why not instead wish

this long estranged,

Ok then divorced,

Couple: Happy

50^th Wedding

Anniversary!

© Stanley V. Collymore

12 December 2019.

Author’s Comments:

Knowledgeably to those who have a functioning brain in their head and know how to properly use it, the past can’t realistically or truthfully ever be altered in any way and no such intelligent person would attempt to embark on such a futile exercise.

However, there’s absolutely nothing that either sensibly or logically says, or dictates, that one can’t or shouldn’t endeavour to personally and constructively learn lessons from one’s past and overall experiences rather than let one’s self to most unfortunately, voluntarily, unconditionally and steadfastly become either a completely pathetically sorry for one’s self victim or otherwise a calculatedly bitter prisoner of what one, now regrettably perhaps, occasioned in the past.