Deena’s 10 plagues!
So, I was doing something, lets say, unattractive that my mother requested I don’t expand on here and then I turned to my dear mother and jokingly said, “Oh, so is that why I’m not married?” Of course she was quick to point out that someone else we know very well is very much so married although she sometimes acts similarly.
Ah, there are so many possible reasons I’m not married! In honour of the upcoming holiday (Pessach, of course) on which we count the 10 plagues God sent upon the Egyptians, lets count Deena’s 10 plagues!
Egypt
The ten real reasons Deena isn’t married
- I’m not pretty enough.
- I’m not smart enough.
- I’m not nice enough.
- I’m sometimes a little crazy.
- I’m too wonderful for my own good.
- I’m too complicated.
- I don’t put myself out there enough.
- I put myself out there too much.
- My attitude about relationships is aaaaall wrong.
- My hair is too curly.
Eh. Unconvincing to say the least!
Silly Deena… There are plenty of smart, stupid, nice, not nice, complicated, nerdy and curly-haired married people. So why aren’t I and all the lovely single people I know married? Go know. :)
Shabbat shalom!
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P.S. Froug is too cute to be a plague! He’ll have to come visit Habitza.com very soon.
Photo by archer10 (Dennis) on flickr.
9 out of 10 of these items have too/enough/sometimes modifiers in them. That means that those can be discarded. That leaves item 9 as the only “real” reason in the list.
Mark, interesting… Why is that what makes them not real reasons? Also, is it not only a figure of writing? Number nine could also be a too/enough reason. I could have written it differently and thereby entered it into the category that it seems, according to your opinion, are not legit “reasons.”
I don’t mean not real, that’s why I put “real” in quotation marks. I’m not sure what the correct word is, but there undoubtedly is a psychological term for statements made with level qualifiers in them versus statements made without such level qualifiers.
I won’t go through the entire list, but look at item 1 for example. You are saying that you are pretty (which, if your picture is real is objectively true). In item 2, you are saying that you are smart (and since you can write well and run a blog, is also true). Etc.
But statement 9 is the only absolute statement on the list, not only is it absolute, but you chose to include the word “all” in it, and not only did you choose to use the word “all”, but you specifically chose to emphasize that word with the extra ‘a’s in it. So, if I were a psychologist, and I’m not, I would ask you [in a Freud-y kind of voice] “so vhy do you feel that your attitude towards relationships is all wrong?”