Fifty years married and forty five of them divorced!

 
By Stanley Collymore
 
Sociologists and statisticians might be rather  
amused by the information volunteered to
them and even take a designated interest
in this exceptionally detailed and now  
related marital outcome, but it’s  
also extremely unlikely, even within  
the proverbial thoughtful and pensively  
engaged in moment of sombre reflexion
that it would realistically grab  
the complete attention of far less so  
seriously encourage anyone else’s  
enthusiastic curiosity or general  
conjecture, with regard to this
uncommon and connubial  
situation, other than of  
the aforementioned  
sociologists and
statisticians.
 
And with good reason too! For why  
should it, when in quite ordinary
situations spousal participants
who have been this long and
so incompatibly entangled
with each other are either singly  
or else conjointly dead, and
therefore in referencing them  
there’s customarily nothing  
of note to honestly reflect  
upon as regards to their  
bilateral relationship,
or for that matter to  
be interestingly or  
publicly declared.
 
And if the Grim Reaper who decisively
and unquestionably has the final say  
on these sorts of matters has, of  
his own choice, intentionally,  
capriciously, leniently or  
even magnanimously, take your  
pick, decided to adopt a hands  
-off attitude as regards this
most unusual couple and  
their 50-years old roller
coaster relationship, what  
right then has anyone  
to arbitrarily stand  
in opposition by  
acting contrarily? And  
why not instead wish
this long estranged,
Ok then divorced,
Couple: Happy  
50th Wedding
Anniversary!
 
© Stanley V. Collymore
12 December 2019.
 
 
Author’s Comments:
Knowledgeably to those who have a functioning brain in their head and know how to properly use it, the past can’t realistically or truthfully ever be altered in any way and no such intelligent person would attempt to embark on such a futile exercise.
 
However, there’s absolutely nothing that either sensibly or logically says, or dictates, that one can’t or shouldn’t endeavour to personally and constructively learn lessons from one’s past and overall experiences rather than let one’s self to most unfortunately, voluntarily, unconditionally and steadfastly become either a completely pathetically sorry for one’s self victim or otherwise a calculatedly bitter prisoner of what one, now regrettably perhaps, occasioned in the past.