 Romance/Love: September 19, 2007 Issue [#1955] |
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
~James J. Walker
I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~Sylvester Stallone
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Romance and Love are not just for the young. And yes, Love can be better the second time around...older and wiser and more appreciative of the other's value and heart.
As I have discovered, romance takes on new meaning as one grows older. Love is more than the tangle of bodies enjoined as the culmination of breathless love. Of course it is...at any age. But with older couples...fifties and beyond....love is more focused on companionship and the ability to make the other laugh... with adult children who offer grandkids to babysit...and spoil...when romance is often his bringing you a cup of coffee when you are writing or when she scratches your back and rubs sore shoulders after hours of typing! Bouts of mad passionate lovemaking grow fewer and farther between now replaced by hugs and snuggles, tear streaming, side splitting laughter that leaves you breathless, and a myriad of little kindnesses that bring glowing smiles.
I wonder, at times, why there aren't more romance novels about senior citizens or maybe 'junior' seniors.
Certainly we have loves and passions, adventures and lost and found loves. These days, my love and I appreciate each other simply because we are older and having once loved and lost twenty years ago, then found and kept each other, we know now how short life is. Older and wiser now, the value we place on each other has grown in different ways that it did when we were young and invincible and surely immortal.
Romance changes or perhaps, evolves, as one grows older. Being awakened in the morning with coffee in bed is a wonderful thing! Hugs and kisses mean more somehow although they rarely lead to other things. You learn to replace sheeted tumbles with back rubs, rambling conversations and tons of silly little things that speak volumes to each other and make no sense at all to anyone else, let alone your kids who think you are awfully silly at times. They roll their eyes and they simply do not get it...but one day...they will!
I saw a couple walking down the street last week. Easily in their eighties, they walked hand in hand, slowly...ever so slowly. He helped her down off the curb to the street. She helped him up the curb on the other side. He said something, his words lost on the breeze, but she smiled and beamed and two busy customers stopped to watch. She touched his cheek, and two mothers with yowling children smiled. They eventually made their way into my store, and I talked with them for a few moments.
Flossie and Samuel, married 63 years. I asked them what was the best thing about 'older love.' He said it was knowing she needed him as much as he needed her. She blushed! Then she said it was that they'd learned to be comfortable within their skins. He used to be dashing. Now he can't dash anywhere anymore, so she can keep up!' He giggled and said, 'Ah Flossie, it is you who keep me young.' 'No, my love,' she replied. 'We keep each other young, we keep each other going. He often finishes my sentence and i fishes his. We are so used to each other we can go all morning and not say a word, and yet have great conversations.' Sure seems romantic to me!
I'll leave you with yet one more quote.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee
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