a respectable lady

 I knew a very respectable lady who also had a very respectable husband.

The respectable lady eventually found an equally respectable lover and abandoned her respectable husband.
I, as a third-party observer, assumed that the respectable lover must have been even more respectable than the respectable husband to have such a… profound impact on a respectable lady and wife.
I was wrong: the lover was rather a shallow, superficial, and frivolous man.
This fact caused me some confusion because I couldn’t explain the choice of the respectable lady.
I concluded that the respectable lady wasn’t all that respectable, because if she were, she wouldn’t have made such a foolish mistake by choosing a shallow lover.
From now on, therefore, if I want to judge a lady’s character, I won’t look at her husband but at her lover.


Ήξερα μία πολύ αξιόλογη κυρία η οποία είχε επίσης ένα πολύ αξιόλογο σύζυγο. 

Η  αξιόλογη κυρία τελικά βρήκε ένα επίσης αξιόλογο εραστή και εγκατέλειψε  τον αξιόλογο σύζυγο. 

Εγώ,  ως τρίτος  παρατηρητής,  υπέθεσα ότι ο αξιόλογος εραστής θα ήταν ακόμη πιο αξιόλογος από τον αξιόλογο σύζυγο για να επιδράσει τόσο …επιδραστικά σε μιά αξιολογη κυρία και σύζυγο.

Έκανα λάθος: ο εραστής ήταν μάλλον τενεκές, επιφανειακός και ελαφρόμυαλος.

Το γεγονός αυτό μου δημιούργησε κάποια σύγχιση διότι δεν μπορούσα να εξηγήσω την επιλογή της αξιολόγης κυρίας.

Κατέληξα στο συμπέρασμα ότι η αξιόλογη κυρία δεν ήταν και τόσο αξιόλογη διότι αν ήταν δεν θα έκανε τέτοια βλακεία να βρει ένα τενεκέ εραστή.

Από δω και στο εξής λοιπόν, εάν θέλω να κρίνω την προσωπικότητα  κάποιας κυρίας, δεν θα βλέπω τον σύζυγο της αλλά τον εραστή της.

Ο εραστής είναι το κριτήριο.


The lover is the criterion.

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