Never been kissed

I just spent an hour talking to a friend who tried to tell another friend of ours, M, that her current boyfriend cannot make it. It turned out that her pep talk came too late as M's cannot-make-it boyfriend had proposed. She kept asking me what to do, I told her that love blinds all flaws. If M knows what she's in for and she still wants to persist then no one can stop her. Ultimately, we are answerable to ourselves and we bear the consequences of our decisions and if we choose not to do certain things then no one can make us. Sometimes people just need to make their own mistakes and learn from there and move on. We have different priorities in our lives at different stages, afterall, she's not young anymore, maybe she thinks that this may be her last chance to jump on the bandwagon of leading a happily married life. Anyway marriage is no longer an institution . Long before I got married, people around me are already divorced and getting remarried. If she's unhappy and wants out after getting married, it's so easy to just bail out. There's no perfect man out there, it's just what you can put up with and what you can't and if you can't just leave. As I grow up, I realise that life is no longer that fairytale of happily ever after. If this thing called marriage is such a fleeting thing, then why do we even sign the papers at all? Maybe it's the idea of having signed the papers that is so appealing or maybe it has to do with the big rock behind it. We are just two imperfect people living in an imperfect world, looking for a perfect balance. Sometimes we hit the balance and sometimes not but as long as the balance is not too far off, we will continue to sit on the see-saw.