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MARRIAGE IS A VENN DIAGRAM

John Paul L. Botin


7 February 2014

After a couple of years into our marriage, I finally decided to write about the same
issue. I am not, in any way, an expert on marriages considering my youthless age
or ageless youth, my judgments or its lapses and my deceptive looks. But since this
is a free and democratic country, let this gesture be an indication of our freedom
and democracy at least for now. Besides, I have not missed payment of my
corresponding dues to the government since I entered employment, taxes that is,
exact to the nearest centavo based on my current tax bracket.

It is only now that I realized how the rings are placed in a rectangular pillow during
wedding pictorials. With the rings overlapping each other, it bears a striking
resemblance with a Venn diagram with the pillow as its universal set.

Let us say that marriage is the union of two (2) distinct individuals. Just like in any
joint sets, there should be, at least a common element. This intersection can only be
the traits, events and other circumstances which are present to both contracting
parties. Without which, either spouse could easily seek for an eventual separation
due to irreconcilable differences if they both have the time and the resources in the
future.

It cannot be ascertained that the success of marriage hinges entirely on the notion
that everything that the husband has should also be what the wife is or the other
way round. Otherwise, they will only be improper subsets of each other. Their
oneness in mind, body and spirit should still make a room for the growth of their
dreams and aspirations.

The essence and ultimate purpose of the union of two (2) individual of opposite
genders is not just procreation but also complementation. What is deficit in one
should be sufficient in the other. In the event that the lack, whatever it is, is
provided by another source or means, it could spell disaster. When one sees the
imperfection and humanity of the spouse and fails to see the beauty that lies
beneath, again, results could be devastating.

The union, intersection or complementation of the spouses is not designed to last


forever because our human existence is evanescent and ephemeral. Death is a
faithful subset of our being that maintains order and stability in all creation. It is
also the empty set that nullifies everything including marriages.

Marriage, in its most elemental form, is being able to commit to the vows declared
by the spouses before God as witnessed by the wedding attendees. The rest are just
instruments to make the agreement binding and legal which can be voided with the
death of one of the signatories or both. It is a lifetime conviction to be loyal, no
matter what, from darkness until dawn, in sickness and in sin, in thickness and in
thin, in weakness and in win, until death do we part

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