One warm evening i passed a pizza shop and decided to pick up something to eat. Stepping inside i noticed a young man in line ahead of me playing with four children who appeared to range between 3 and 7 years old. They pulled on his trousers and clung to his legs. The man whom I judged to be about 25, obviously loved the children. He picked them up and hugged them and kissed them. Quite impressed i asked if the children were his.
” Yes “ he said.
” You’re quite young to have four children “ i asked.
“ Not only am i young “ he said ” but each of these children has a different mother. “
” So you’ve married four times ? “ i asked.
” No! “ he said ” i prefer not to marry. I’ve just lived with this women. “
” Why haven’t you married? “ i asked, continuing my indiscreet interrogation.
” Well as you know “ he said ” when you buy a car, you try it out first to see if you’ll like it. You only buy it when you’re sure it’s the one you want. “
” But what does buying a car have to do with not getting married ? “ i asked.
” You have to try it out first “ the young man said. ” Try it out first! “
Those words still ring in my ears. ” Try it out first “ means living together with no commitment whatsoever. The purpose is ” to see whether were compatible, “ or to paraphrase the words of that fu*kng youthful father, ” to see if she’s the one I wan’t. “ And this is the experience of millions of couples! Gad gusto ko sana siyang talakan o pahiyain sa mga isinagot niya sakin kaso i remain civil kaya hindi ko nalang pinatulan -.-
Sensible as ” trying it out first” may seem at first glance, there’s a problem. You can try out a car and if you don’t like it you can try out another and another and none of the cars will feel hurt over the way you treated them. You can even wreck the car and it will never cry because cars don’t have feelings. But people do!
