Would you marry someone…?
I read this tweet on Twitter few days back (not exact wording but very close):
“Would you marry someone whom you have hardly spent any time with?”
The first thing that came to my head was the frail relationship between Terry and Candy in Candy Candy.
Granted, both of them had dreamt of their future as a couple, and the image of raising a child with Terry flashed across Candy’s mind when she was heading back to Chicago after their breakup in New York. Actually, that was a heart wrenching picture. Candy was fully aware that her future with Terry was doomed.
However, let’s be objective and fair for the sake of discussion. How much did Candy know Terry? In fact, he didn’t know much about her either.
In the manga, most of the time they were bantering, and the kiss they had shared resulting in slapping each other in anger and frustration. Why? She hadn’t been ready yet, still grieving the tragic death of Anthony. And what did Terry do to her? He returned the ‘favor’. Why? He couldn’t stand the insult of being slapped by a girl or what?
In short, neither had opened up to each other about their past or feelings, and I wonder why? It seemed that they had both intentionally kept things to themselves. Candy had discovered by chance that Terry was the illegitimate child of the Duke, not because he had revealed it to her. On the contrary, Candy had always trusted Albert. She had told him many things that she hadn’t told others.
After being framed by Eliza, Terry and Candy had gone separate paths. When they reunited more than a year later in New York, both had changed. If you read the manga closely, they didn’t really have much to talk about other than their ‘good old days’.
One might argue that Terry had been afflicted by Susanna’s accident, but come to think of it, even without Susanna, Terry and Candy didn’t belong to the same world any longer. One was a thriving Broadway actor and the other was a hardworking nurse. They needed some time to get to understand each other a bit more if they were serious about being together.
Therefore, if I were Candy’s friend, I would have persuaded her to wait and see if Terry was really the right man for her.
I will talk more along this line later. Stay tuned. 🙂
I don’t know if I would marry someone whom I spent hardly any time with. And hopefully I will not find out, ha ha. It’s not an experience I have ever had.
I knew my husband for many years before we fell in love and got married.
Would you marry someone you hardly know Ms Puddle?
Hi there, CKati! I guess my answer to the question is ‘No’. It’s almost like a gamble, and I don’t think I’m that ‘adventurous’ (so to speak :P)
Now, that you mention it, I had a friend who was married to her old school mate. They were opposite of Candy and Terry, actually. My friend and her husband were never friends in their high school days, nor even had a small casual hello-whats-up’s. Then after so many years, they met again in a small conference. They chatted for awhile, they became friends until they finally got married and have kids together. Today it’s their 7th year as husband and wife. She’s so lucky! Not only her husband is kind, but he literally has Albert’s blond hair and blue eyes! And I can’t help myself to describe how well-built his frame is. One day, I will share with you her pictures with him, if she allows me lol. Fate sure is strange when it reunites some people who don’t have history with each other, but their strong relationship really amazes me!
I think my point is not that they didn’t have history together, but they hardly spent time with each other. Neither did they have many chances to talk about anything serious. 😉