Hello everyone.
Here, I'll be giving my response to the question, which reads
Your spouse and child have been diagnosed with a terminal disease that requires immediate attention. The cost of this treatment is higher than your means and you can only save one of them. Who would you save and why?
Questions as this are very heartbreaking but they happen. Someone, somewhere has experienced or is currently experiencing this.
Whatever decision anyone makes with the haunt/hurt him the rest of his days. I thought of my parents...would one pick any of their kids against their spouse? With how long and far they have come? And with how inseparable they’ve become? A parent-instinct might kick in, no doubt.
I thought about myself and my siblings. We're all grown and living by ourselves. But my parents? They're stuck together, with each other, for life! We'll all go along to be with someone else and choose to choose them, at all times.
Hard as it is and bad as it makes me feel, I know what I might decide. I know what my parents will. Each one deserves to live. The child deserves to live life to its fullest. Imagine it was already a grown young man probably in his late teens or in his early adulthood. If you begin to take certain factors as that into consideration, you would want to give this kid a chance at life, to explore, because yourself or/and your spouse have probably seen some good days but more than that too, what happens to the one person you have become one with and promised to always choose inspite of everything?
In that light, I’ll choose to save my partner. The pains from giving up a child would hurt me for long, far too long but having my wife with me might make healing somewhat easier. I don’t know how it is going to be. I cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like.
Truth is, however my child loves me, he might never be there for me as my partner will. Maybe, I’m being selfish here but even raising that child knowing life would have been easier if the mom was there to shower motherly tenderness and love and to egg me on and support me on the parenting journey would be so hard on me. I could never be the same.
I know there's the option of getting a new wife but I'd choose that she stays alive, for me, with me and we birth more kids while we console ourselves over the great loss and fight till forever.
So here, I profess my selfish desire to be with, stand by and save the one with whom I have shared memories, endured trials, enjoyed bliss, the woman with whom I am one and made
the vow, "in sickness or in health".
I sincerely hope that a day like that never comes when, we have to choose
from between the ones we love and especially not in the dark times.
Thanks for stopping by.
