A WARNING FOR PRODUCTIVE SINGLES - Pt.1
** Read at risk, you may not want to become a couple after reading if you are a highly driven productive single. **
It just occured to me why couples seem so busy.
As I stepped out of the loo, too early in the morning, I was half-thinking in my sleep that coupling should be a productive affair. You have two persons doing a solo act. One job, two persons, half the time right? But in reality it wasn't. In the last year, I always seem to find that time flies by whenever I'm with my boyfriend. That's probably largely attributed to that we really like each other and spending time with each other so we don't notice how and when it passes. But it also seems that even though we spend time together doing stuff, there seems to be more things we don't get done than get done.
Then the reality of the equation hit me.
Singles are really the more productive of the two types of the persons. As a single, you are one person with twenty-four hours to do one person's job. You hook up with someone nice and then you spend a significant amount of time with that person. Say you are not irresponsible and waste away that time completely by looking into each others' eyes, so you two do stuff together. (If you don't that then it simply gets exponentially harder to get stuff done!). When 'two become one', you have one unit with twenty-four hours to get two persons' business done.
Technically, should be able to save time. If both persons need to do X in Y minutes (X = Y mins), and one person does X+X, then the equation should become 2X = Y. If its the same task that both people need to do, and one person does both it should save half the time.
However that equation doesn't always work. With that twenty-four hours, the one unit made up of two persons with only one unit's time has to do two persons' business. The One person of man and wife, has only the same amount of time to do two persons' business. So, when we hook up, we are really removing one productive person from the equation. And that explains why marrieds are so busy and yet don't neccessarily get the job done. Instead of my taking 15 minutes to wash my dinner's dirty dishes (say 2 pcs), the one unit will take 25 minutes to wash dinner's dirty dishes, now 4 pieces, only one can be washing and if the other part of the unit is nice, they will be talking/listening.
Of course, the one unit can behave like two persons and both do two different jobs at the same time, but then what would be the point of coupling if you did diffferent things, at different times and at different places and not to be together?
It just occured to me why couples seem so busy.
As I stepped out of the loo, too early in the morning, I was half-thinking in my sleep that coupling should be a productive affair. You have two persons doing a solo act. One job, two persons, half the time right? But in reality it wasn't. In the last year, I always seem to find that time flies by whenever I'm with my boyfriend. That's probably largely attributed to that we really like each other and spending time with each other so we don't notice how and when it passes. But it also seems that even though we spend time together doing stuff, there seems to be more things we don't get done than get done.
Then the reality of the equation hit me.
Singles are really the more productive of the two types of the persons. As a single, you are one person with twenty-four hours to do one person's job. You hook up with someone nice and then you spend a significant amount of time with that person. Say you are not irresponsible and waste away that time completely by looking into each others' eyes, so you two do stuff together. (If you don't that then it simply gets exponentially harder to get stuff done!). When 'two become one', you have one unit with twenty-four hours to get two persons' business done.
Technically, should be able to save time. If both persons need to do X in Y minutes (X = Y mins), and one person does X+X, then the equation should become 2X = Y. If its the same task that both people need to do, and one person does both it should save half the time.
However that equation doesn't always work. With that twenty-four hours, the one unit made up of two persons with only one unit's time has to do two persons' business. The One person of man and wife, has only the same amount of time to do two persons' business. So, when we hook up, we are really removing one productive person from the equation. And that explains why marrieds are so busy and yet don't neccessarily get the job done. Instead of my taking 15 minutes to wash my dinner's dirty dishes (say 2 pcs), the one unit will take 25 minutes to wash dinner's dirty dishes, now 4 pieces, only one can be washing and if the other part of the unit is nice, they will be talking/listening.
Of course, the one unit can behave like two persons and both do two different jobs at the same time, but then what would be the point of coupling if you did diffferent things, at different times and at different places and not to be together?
Labels: relationships
posted by The Chilibuddy @ 7:46 am ::
2 Comments:
your logic is mind blogging, ly-ann. seriously. i can hardly understand a word you are saying. i must be a neanderthal.
ah if only relationships were as easy as algebra and calculus...but i must again quote the facebook wisdom, "its complicated"
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