Of marriage and single life. Week 2!!

Central argument: Marriage is not a picnic when one is immature to hold the hardship as it holds one back.

            Of marriage and simple life, one of the essays of Francis beacon is about a marriage that at times does seem to be complicated. Francis Beacon has written about men who are immature and are married and compares them to men who have been married for longer period of time. Beacon says that people who have been through hardships of marriage and that have persevered for long in marriage are men, who are happy with their married life. And the fact that immature men are held back in their hardship of their marriage.

            “Yet it were great reason that those that have children, should have greatest care of future times,” a passage from the essay of Beacon does testify the great reasons of being married for longer period of time and that is after having kids. As there is a possibility that the kids would probably take care of their parents some way or the other. “Some there are, who though they lead a single life, yet their thoughts do end with themselves, and account future times impertinences” is what Beacon has to say about men who are single and about their future that does not seem to take anywhere better in one’s life.

 “Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they may be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon” is what Francis Beacon has written in his essay and has told the reader that life after having children and raising them is a matter of learning in life because, there is discipline and responsibility that is needed after having children. This means that people who have been through more time in marriage are the people who are not held back as much as people who are immature and are married.

“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.” Here, Francis Beacon writes about the truthful fact about men and their wives that they are married to. And to be honest, to be nurses is much better than being mistresses because Nurses, according to their job do seem to be much more caring than mistresses. There is a saying in one of Nepal’s culture which says that experience is the key to successful life. And that is true because, people with much experience tend to make fewer mistakes than people who are learning to be mature. And marriage is something that only becomes better and much enjoyable after quite a lot of experience that family goes through.