18 March 2009

A beautiful sentiment

I was having a conversation with some people about the meaning of life. Someone, surprisingly more pessimistic than myself (heh), proposed that "People only exist to break others' hearts" as the opener for this discussion and it grew from there. Whether you agree or not with that statement (for the record, I whole-heartedly do not), it is difficult to deny the beauty of this sentiment, shared by a married man about his wife:

"After seriously contemplating this idea for several minutes, seriously, I disagree with your premise. There is only one person's heart, other than my own, that I have the slightest interest in: my wife of almost 15years. I go out of my way to make sure that she is as happy as humanly possible. That she will wake up in the morning knowing that she is loved and appreciated, never taken for granted. And that she will go to sleep every night with a smile on her face. I have no interest in breaking her heart. I have no interest in any other heart." - g(TF)

Wow. I don't think I have ever seen a more simple and more accurate statement of what marriage should be. Lucky guy, eh?

I have no interest in breaking her heart. I have no interest in any other heart.