I'm in the middle of reading the book "The time Traveller's Wife." Basically for me, its a very nice book to read. Easy reading and feel good. However, I realized while conversing with some friends that its is mere romanticism of how a man really is in real life. For one, just like Henry in the book, men really do disappear...literally and figuratively. One day their listening to your most intimate thoughts and the next, they ignore you as if you do not exist. Some really do disappear. No call, no email, no text, nothing. Its like they vanished into thin air! Second, they are really detached from the real world. They have a world of their own which only they can live in. May it be basketball, soccer, golf or billiards. Only the same "travellers" can understand the life they live (basically men). Third, the women are always waiting for their men. They wait for them to grow up and be ready for responsibilities. They wait for them to figure out the map to a place they're going to because they refuse to ask for directions. They wait for their men to commit and pop the question. Just like Claire, for any woman, it is indeed a waiting game. I have to agree with Claire. Henry had all the adventures while she had to wait for him to appear, which was more difficult. I should know, I wait for my man all the time. Lastly, Henry is truly a typical man. He jumps from one woman to another. Saying that these women know what they are getting into when they agree to make love with him without getting attached. Actually, what men underestimate is the hopefulness of a woman. We do these things in the hope of having our men change their minds and love us for eternity. Hope is what drives any woman to love a man no matter how complicated he may be, no matter how unreliable he always is and no matter how long we have to wait. We were wired to be this way, the Claires of the universe. Men and women can never be equal. One needs the other more. One gives more time to the other. There is no such thing as equality of the sexes.
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