Is there anything more ridiculous than someone who is married and finds that they need to have a mistress on the side? What's the point of being in a marriage if it isn't doing anything for you? Are you going to drink three fingers of Vodka if you don't like it, or eat octopus if it'll make you sick? So why would you stick around a marriage if it makes you want to run down to the local Yoga meeting and hand out your phone number? It is a part of the human condition that has always puzzled me and I had an early life lesson in such behavior when an uncle of mine found the neighbor girl to be more to his liking than my aunt. Then I witnessed a case where a friend's father was doing the dirty deed with a local married hussy who it turns out had been seeing each other for quite some time on the side. Is it convenient for people to remain in a boring, sexless marriage for financial reasons, to keep up societal images, or because they are so selfish that they couldn't give a damn about anyone else their behavior may be affecting? I think I would have made a great shrink and I probably should have gone on to study psychology which, as I have mentioned before, was my first major in college. If it wasn't for the fact that I had to memorize so many terms I would probably have tried to be a shrink along with writing. My books most likely would have turned out differently.
If I had to sit across from some weakling who couldn't decide over a spouse or mistress I would have to tell them to tread lightly or you may find glass in your spaghetti one night! Who am I kidding, nobody cooks anymore, everyone eats out 359 days of an accounting year. But more important than your libido is the fact that Mozart died at 1 am today, December 5 back in the year 1791. The greatest composer in history dead at the age of 35 because he worked himself to death. Day after day after day, from morning until night he created and after over 600 high quality compositions he fell ill with fever, swelled up like a balloon, puked his brains out for two weeks and perished.
I'm sure Mozart would have been an interesting person to have known, but at the same time you have to wonder if you would have gotten along with the greatest classical music genius of all-time. Maybe there would be something about him, a personality quirk that irritated you and maybe something about you that irritated him and then you both find that neither wants to be in the other's presence and then what? You hear his music on a T.V. commercial or during a concert and think to yourself, yes the music is quite brilliant but the guy was a schmuck! The same could be said about any historical figure really. Take Van Gogh for example; he painted beautiful works of art, wrote introspective and moving diary entries and was known to be quite friendly, but Jean Calmet the oldest recorded person to have ever lived 122 years old, lived in Arles France at the same time Van Gogh did, knew Van Gogh and said he was dirty and disagreeable. Then imagine you go back into time someday in the future and stumble upon one of history's monsters like Stalin or Hitler and without realizing who they are you find them to be pleasant and much to your liking, that is until they find something about you they don't like and have you whacked...But we look at the past and history and hold the "good people" in very high esteem due to what they created or did. Jesus of Nazareth preached to the world the benefits of being a good, decent person, but nobody really knows who he was as a person or what he thought about when he was no longer in front of an audience, lying on his bed of hay at 1 in the morning. Yes that borders on the level of blasphemy but it is a real and honest thought. All of these people throughout history were great at their individual endeavors, but nonetheless they were still people. But we need to believe in the talents of those in the past to keep the mundane world from burying us.
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