A comment thread on the internet was talking about whether anybody actually went through with any of those “marriage pacts” that we joke about so often.

You know the ones: where you and a mutual friend joke that, “Oh if we are still single at 40-years-old, we’ll get married!!!”

As it turns out, there was someone who did have an experience with a marriage pact. And it was a heartbreaking one:

Life is so fragile, and sometimes there is no way to truly understand why certain things happen. I guess all we can do is remain strong and keep going.