The Divorce Files
So I was looking through the electronic business data files for a law firm at work today. As I was scrolling through, I saw transactions related to divorces, that looked something like this:
30/01/2006
Divorce Files $ 5,750.00 Legal Divorce Fees - Mr. X and Ms. Y
and so on and so forth for hundreds, possibly thousands of similar transaction entries.
As I scrolled through, I thought to myself. About how something so important and life-altering can just be so insignificant for someone else. I mean, they may as well have called it, Someone's-relationship-down-the-gutter-resulting-in-monetary-benefit-to-self Files.
I don't blame the law firm. Its just business to them. And really its not their fault. They may even be helping in the closure process.
But it just hurt my heart to see that one person's immeasurable misery, so much so, that he or she had to hire a lawyer to end things with someone they thought they could have sacrificed their life and everything in it for, is a source of pleasure, financial or otherwise, to someone else. It hurt my heart to see even imagine what those poor people must go through with the whole legal separation process, towards the end of the relationship, towards the end of that era in their life.
And then I thought about how unfathomable it all is.
How is it possible that someone's feelings for someone else change for so much worse? Be it suddenly or over a long time.
Can someone really fall out of love with another person?
Is it really possible to be unable to be in the same room or house or country as someone you couldn't keep your hands off of a few months or years ago?
I scrolled through some more of the transactions.
I guess it is really possible. It happens every day.
posted by S @ 10:22 PM
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