Tuesday, June 3, 2008

"The Recognition of the Mundanity of Your Own Life"

This is why I fail at relationships. I don't see why this should be a problem.
For 10 years, Michael Roach and Christie McNally have been together—for every single minute. The two never stray more than 15 feet from each other. ...
When we read about the couple ... we began to wonder if we could learn something from these Buddhist claustrophiles.* We've been married (extremely happily!) for almost 11 years, with two children to show for it. But the idea of enforced physical proximity seemed terrifying—not to mention logistically impossible. How could we stay 15 feet apart if one of us had to take child A to her school while the other walked child B to his?

Not that I think this is the way it should be all the time. That is definitely not recommended. If staying fifteen feet apart does not occur naturally, it should not be done. Still, I think it sounds like a fun way to spend the day. What am I, seventeen?

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