Originally posted by Adikkal
After sharing a mutually cynical view of the world the other nite in a chat with Up All Night, it has been determined that there is no 'one', there is no 'soulmate' or 'kindred spirit' simply Sufficient Circumstantial Partners or SCP's (patent pending). Marriage is just an SCP with obligation. Fuck buddies are just SCP's for sex. There is no 'one', there is just one of many. They are the 'one' within your surroundings and circumstance, that is all.
Discuss.
Adikkal
The more I think about this SCP thing the more convinced I am that this is the case. I don't think it is necessarily trivialising the connection you can have with someone but rather acknowledging the transient and fickle nature of most people's emotions. It's almost like if we were to stick with one person throughout our lives we would be resisting change within ourselves or ensuring the changes we do make in our lives are compatible with those of our partner.
And that's fucked quite frankly.
Maybe I'm just too selfish or maybe I'm just a product of a generation which is almost
too obsessed with reaching their 'full potential' at the cost of everything else in their lives. This isn't the 50s anymore. The most important acheivement we make is not the marriage and the kids. It makes sense that with the declining importance of marriage comes a declining interest in
forcing a long term relationship to work.
That being said, we'll probably hit 70 and be alone in our hostel with no family and think, 'hhhmmmm I kinda wish I'd placed a greater importance on finding a relationship that was going to last through the years.'
Originally posted by silvia saint
pffft. standards are too high these days, relationships are treated like technology. we've got to have the latest and greatest, the shiny and new.
I don't think so. In my case it's definitely a matter of better the devil you know. I don't like things that are shiny and new and I hate technology. Give me my old Nokia with no fancy features and give me a boy whose faults I'm well aware of.