Writing Assignment:
Oliver has a mid-life crisis and
decides to get married to himself. What do you think Oliver discovers with his
decision? Was it a well taken decision?
Write an essay exposing your ideas
and make reference to the reading segment if necessary. Your essay must have at
least three paragraphs. This essay is for Monday.
Sometimes people arrive to a point in
their lives where they find themselves living with ‘me, myself and I’. Friends
around them had already settle down, have a family, drive a minivan; in other
words, friends or family that had the whole ‘I am an adult’ package. Oliver
felt lonely, he wanted a spouse. He wanted that special person who you can
count on to be there for him, no matter what. Who better than himself? The idea
of spending the rest of your life with your ‘half orange’ (or in many
unfortunate cases ‘half lemon’) is what a person dreams their whole life. Since
Oliver did not find that person at the top his life he decides to marry his
other ‘half’ literally. He decided to marry himself.
Oliver must have discovered that there’s no better person
to trust but yourself. Like Charlie Fish, Oliver must have find that even
though he had close friends there is not better friend, or partner than
you. Charlie’s Fish says that his
marriage with himself was great, beyond the tax benefits he encounters. He had
a personal space for himself, no one there to bother; or invade his territory.
He decided to marry the only person he qualified as “best for me”. Is not a
selfish thought, actually he did what he considered best from him.
Just like Charlie Fish, Oliver discovers that it does not
matter who you marry there will be ups and downs. Such as discussions, Charlie
Fish let the readers know that he indeed discusses with himself, but the perks
were that he always won. Oliver, like
Fish encounter the question: “Am I easy to live with?”. Both of them could find
them true being, they encounter, discover what kind of person they were in a
relationship.
Charlie Fish acknowledge that his life with himself was
good, but when you found that special person your life is better. With that
person you would not always win the discussions, nor be a hundred percent
compatible. But that is what makes a relationship a relationship. Those little
or those great differences. It what keeps the flame alive.
On the short relationship Oliver had with himself he discovers
many things among those things he found something many search for years or
their whole lives: who he truly was. He was a determined man who knows how to
take the best decision from himself, even though it was a crazy idea like
marrying himself. Oliver was able to be himself, he overcomes any criticism and
pessimist thought. Oliver finds that relations are nor perfect no matter who you
marry, the matrimony will always be a roller-coaster full of happy moments and
not so full of happy moments.
To my judgment I do not disapproves what Charlie Fish
did. It takes a great amount of courage and determination to walk into
marriage. Even though is with yourself, he was able to discover what he was
looking for. He discovers that in solitary moments there is no better person to
understand you than yourself and also that when you love, find that person who
loves you back your life will be great.
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