There’s a beautiful quote from the movie ‘Shall We Dance’ in which the wife tries to explain why people get married. It struck a chord with me because this explanation of the need for marriage is very gender independent yet not utilitarian – it talks about the spouse as a companion, a witness. It simply says that we marry because we need a witness to our lives.
We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does anyone's life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything -the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day.
You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'."
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