I catch myself observing young couples with
children and wondering: Do they seem
happy? Do they seem like they’re having sex? Obviously, they’ve had some in
order to have children. I look at their posture, trying to figure out their
body language, how they look at each other. That’s it? Have they fulfilled
their lives now? Do they exchange loving looks? Or just bored ones. Have the women
become fat and ugly? And what about the men; do they stare at me? Do they give
me weird looks? For reasons I haven’t yet realised it seems that I attract married
men. I suppose they don’t get laid enough. Or they’ve become bored of their wives
or fed up with their family life. And what about the other ones. People I didn’t
know had kids and suddenly I see them walking along holding hands with their
little creatures. They’re parents? Wow. I didn’t see that coming. Now they’re
just, well, ordinary people who wanted to have a family. It is utterly strange
how creatures created out of sex and passion can actually destroy these. I must
have read this somewhere.