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Friday arrives with a Thud
Feb. 11th, 2005 08:28 amA quick entry before a conference call with an east coast client in about ... 15 minutes.
Lent. We're now in the second day of Lent. I have never understood why we have to give up something for Lent. I think the role of humanity should be to live a good life and to do one's best to end suffering. So, why then, should we suffer on purpose? What purpose does it achieve? What does it prove? And why would any deity care that we grovel and suffer and show we're unworthy? (shrug)
Anyway. I often joke that I gave up marriage for Lent and never went back. Which, technically is not true. My first marriage broke up (as in I finally left after the 3rd attempt on my life) in January of 1989. My second marriage broke up in January of 2002. Both times, months ahead of Lent. Still I spent 7 years between those marriages saying "I'm NEVER doing that again..." and now, 3 years after the 2nd one, I still say, I will NEVER do that again. And so as Lent rolls around each year, I say marriage is what I have sacrificed to the powers that think we must show oppression to throw off oppression. I think I just like the shocked looks on the face of the devout when I say that. As marriage has been wrapped and shrouded with a sanctity and mystery that I feel is inappropriate. I reject that script for my own self, but never do I think it wrong of anyone else who finds comfort in the religious and social ritual of bonding to another human being.
That said...I have to go organize my notes. And later, if my day lets me to do so, a post or two.
Lent. We're now in the second day of Lent. I have never understood why we have to give up something for Lent. I think the role of humanity should be to live a good life and to do one's best to end suffering. So, why then, should we suffer on purpose? What purpose does it achieve? What does it prove? And why would any deity care that we grovel and suffer and show we're unworthy? (shrug)
Anyway. I often joke that I gave up marriage for Lent and never went back. Which, technically is not true. My first marriage broke up (as in I finally left after the 3rd attempt on my life) in January of 1989. My second marriage broke up in January of 2002. Both times, months ahead of Lent. Still I spent 7 years between those marriages saying "I'm NEVER doing that again..." and now, 3 years after the 2nd one, I still say, I will NEVER do that again. And so as Lent rolls around each year, I say marriage is what I have sacrificed to the powers that think we must show oppression to throw off oppression. I think I just like the shocked looks on the face of the devout when I say that. As marriage has been wrapped and shrouded with a sanctity and mystery that I feel is inappropriate. I reject that script for my own self, but never do I think it wrong of anyone else who finds comfort in the religious and social ritual of bonding to another human being.
That said...I have to go organize my notes. And later, if my day lets me to do so, a post or two.
