77777 & Marriage
Egyptians bet on 7.7.7.7.7. According to the Russian news agency, twice as many marriages registered on Friday, 7.07.07 all over the world, and particularly in the region of al Qahirah.
I couldn’t help but wondering how much the world is driven by superstition.
Does it truly comfort us to lay our lives into the seemingly gracious hands of fatalist beliefs? Or is marriage such a big deal in our lives that we simply have to make a pact with higher power to live happily ever after?
Traditionally or essentially, the institution of marriage seems to be a very big deal. Luxurious triple-digit weddings, tremendous stress you have to go through to get publicly united with our loved ones, drunken toasts, bombastic vows, - all this to claim a union that truly is a private matter of the two involved.
I got a submissive “all right” from my soon-to-be husband when I claimed that I would rather spend on celebrating my marital union in a one-to-one context, immediately followed by “but we will definitely have to throw a bigger wedding for everybody else when we get home!”
“So how does it feel to be married?” I have been asked the question many times and it always led me to perplexity when trying to answer it as I discovered no apparent changes after the act itself.
The discrepancy of marriage being an intimate and at the same time societal (public) phenomenon sets a rhetoric question mark as to how much it actually has to do with intimate feelings that spouses share. Do people around us really need a show to be assured that the two are in a romantic union with each other?And eventually, do we need vows to make a successful union?
Carpe diem, that’s all I say.