I read this as being about the way we rationalize the places we end up. Was staying single really a principled decision by this character? No, not at all, but it's where he found himself and he's making the best of it, with good humor. Maybe our lives don't work out the way we thought they might, and maybe that gnaws at us a little, and so we spin the fictions that let us live comfortably in our circumstances.
@greensubmarine That's the way I read it, too. And relating to it through humor in the way he does here allows you to just laugh in its face, which can be really freeing. All the gnawing is put aside for a good laugh and a good reality check, to ask yourself if this is what you want. If so I don't see a problem but if it's not what you want then you've just completed the first step toward improving it. And humor allowed you to do so. I think this is a large reason why we enjoy things like...
@greensubmarine That's the way I read it, too. And relating to it through humor in the way he does here allows you to just laugh in its face, which can be really freeing. All the gnawing is put aside for a good laugh and a good reality check, to ask yourself if this is what you want. If so I don't see a problem but if it's not what you want then you've just completed the first step toward improving it. And humor allowed you to do so. I think this is a large reason why we enjoy things like stand-up and sitcoms so much.
I read this as being about the way we rationalize the places we end up. Was staying single really a principled decision by this character? No, not at all, but it's where he found himself and he's making the best of it, with good humor. Maybe our lives don't work out the way we thought they might, and maybe that gnaws at us a little, and so we spin the fictions that let us live comfortably in our circumstances.
@greensubmarine That's the way I read it, too. And relating to it through humor in the way he does here allows you to just laugh in its face, which can be really freeing. All the gnawing is put aside for a good laugh and a good reality check, to ask yourself if this is what you want. If so I don't see a problem but if it's not what you want then you've just completed the first step toward improving it. And humor allowed you to do so. I think this is a large reason why we enjoy things like...
@greensubmarine That's the way I read it, too. And relating to it through humor in the way he does here allows you to just laugh in its face, which can be really freeing. All the gnawing is put aside for a good laugh and a good reality check, to ask yourself if this is what you want. If so I don't see a problem but if it's not what you want then you've just completed the first step toward improving it. And humor allowed you to do so. I think this is a large reason why we enjoy things like stand-up and sitcoms so much.