Another wonderfull video and beautifuly narrarated.
I would like to comment on the content.
I am not married and never have been but I am a keen observer of those that are and have been.
I have seen this scenario played out more times than I can mention and every time I see it it makes me very sad. Over and over again I see young newlyweds, happy and in love with each other, turn into an estranged couple simply because one party has forgotten that the other is actually a human being. This happens both ways but mostly it is the female who is the one doing the forgetting. The change occurs usually after the birth of a child when priorities naturally shift but not always. Often times it happens around the time when the woman finally feels comfortable with the idea that their mate is dependent upon and entwined in the marriage, which is hard for the man to leave because of the cost involved. Her empathy for him atrophies and soon a disregard for his identity as a person with desires, needs, and goals of his own sets in.
I will never forget a woman that I knew who loved to tell the story about how she got her husband to quit racket ball. She began the story with “my late husband, well…..he had a passion.” (Heaven forbid!) “He played racket ball for four hours every Saturday and things like grocery shopping and house work were not getting done in a convenient manner. So one day I cornered him in the living room and told him that he just had to stop all together. We had a drop down drag-em out fight over it but I eventually won.” She would tell the story over and over as if it were a story of martial conquest. And I suppose it was to some extent. It made me wonder what kind of life the guy had, if any at all. I get sad every time I think about it actually. I could tell so many stories like this.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
-Eric Hoffer
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1st-July-2009
