| I found a role model.
Posted: 7/26/2005 8:08:21 PM | I saw something today. I decided to post this on Broken Hearts because mine was healed a little. I was at a burger place in line waiting to get my order. I was looking around at all the people in the place as you do when you know what you want but the person in front of you is seeing a McDonalds menu for the first time in his life, and then I saw them.
There was this elderly couple in one of the booths cuddled together on the same bench. They must have been in their late seventies. She was feeding him french fries.
But the look on his face!
He was smiling as if he were a king lying in a palace being fanned with palm fronds and being fed the world's sweetest grapes by Salma Hayek.
I wanted to be that guy. I wanted to feel like that. To be so in love with someone that when she performs the simple task of feeding me a fry, she makes McDonalds seem like paradise. So there is hope. People are out there and are happy with each other. Relationships sometimes do go the distance. I hope it does not take me until I am that old to find her. If you are out there and you are reading this my special one, whoever you might be, I'll spring for the fries! ;)
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| I found a role model.
Posted: 7/26/2005 8:28:39 PM | aww it's always sweet to see an old couple who are still in love after all those years.
Just had a thought...maybe they met online and they were still dating ? hehe | |
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| I found a role model.
Posted: 7/27/2005 5:38:59 AM | Not to be a jerk, but I admire those who can find happiness in their minds.
I'll wager that the old man would be willing to share his happiness with you. Just ask him if he'd be ok with his dearest popping fries into your mouth. Then you too could be as happy as he. There are many lonely souls out there. The key is to give the happiness, not seek it out like some sort of hunter out for a kill.
Treat an elderly women to french fries at McDonalds. | |
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Posted: 7/27/2005 1:19:30 PM | | Seeking out happiness like a predator is a horribly negative analogy. I was merely appreciatig a scene I saw. I think to truly be able to appreciate a scene like that. You have to be able to experience it yourself. To be empathetic. Me feeling what I felt at that moment gave me hope that I could be that guy some day. I didn't want to steal his happiness or diminish it in any way. Asking his neloved to feed me fries would probably have ruined the moment for him. I was content to wath cuz one day its my turn. Oh btw the persuit of happiness is one of your privileges as a human. So go be happy :) | |
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Posted: 7/27/2005 2:51:42 PM | There should be more stories on here like this one, notajerk 
This is the dream of just about everyone who frequents this site, I image.
Thanks for posting it! | |
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Posted: 7/27/2005 3:19:47 PM | Two stories:
Many years ago when I had a job as a server in a restaurant I saw an elderly couple having a meal in a booth. The woman had her hair done up in bun at the back of her head, but several strands were hanging lose on her face. At one point I saw him gesture for her to lean forwards and he gently toke the lose strands of her hair and tucked them in behind her ear. Her eyes sparkled and she smiled . . . he smiled back and they continued their meal.
I had a history professor at university (in his 60's and very attractive) whose wife (also in her 60's, and rather ordinary in appearance), also a prof, taught in the English department. I often attended European Studies seminars and invariably, my history Prof was there, usually sitting in the front row. His wife, busy woman that she was with her own career, usually joined him about halfway through the Talk. When K walked into the room, he COULD NOT TAKE HIS EYES OFF OF HER, NOR SHE, HER EYES OF OF HIM. Everyone I knew used to notice it, and we often talked about it. WE WERE ALL JEALOUS! | |
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Posted: 7/27/2005 3:30:36 PM | | There is an old couple I have known all my life who have been married many, many years. He is 98 and she is 94. They still hold hands when they sit and watch TV, or go for a walk. Now that is true love. I hope everyone looking for their special one can find the same thing! | |
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Posted: 7/30/2005 10:59:31 PM | We can learn a lot from older couples and get great advice on how they do it (keeping their love alive and stay romantic, after all these years)...
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Posted: 7/31/2005 5:34:22 AM | I bet that old couple would say it's communication and going through some tough times together. My parents are like that. The negative attitudes and the ease in which alot of our generation seem to be able to just say " I've had enough" is not typical of our parents generation. I am here too, but 'll be right up front to say that the internet and other mediums have torn our world apart when it comes to relationships..even tho some meet online, more often than not they've left someone for it. Be happy, but open your eyes. | |
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Posted: 7/31/2005 6:04:05 AM | sigh... some day I would like to find my special someone and ride off into the sunset...
Be able to sit on my front porch growing old together, watching the world pass by...
oh sigh....
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| I found a role model.
Posted: 7/31/2005 6:16:50 AM | | I daydream about fining love like that...not only a romantic stirring, but the kindness and character it takes to make it work for so many years. Maybe getting past the hard times causes a strengthening and reliance on the ability to get through anything. | |
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| I found a role model.
Posted: 7/31/2005 8:41:41 AM | | Awesome post - now this is more like it a positive spin on life. My parents are towards their late 70's. We were driving home from a mexican food restaurant. My Dad looked at my Mom and told her that she is the most beautiful woman in the world. Now, if I had been in junior high or high school, I would've rolled my eyes. Let me tell you, I was so happy to hear that! It was so sexy and just way too cool. Unbelievable how strong love can be if you let it! | |
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| I found a role model.
Posted: 7/31/2005 10:02:32 AM | Yeah, that was always my dream too. Maybe someday...
I just hope by the time I find her I will not be too senile.  | |
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Posted: 7/31/2005 2:42:04 PM | | Nothing more exciting than a couple of old cruppers cramming fries into one another. Very romantic. I'm moved. | |
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Posted: 12/2/2005 7:00:53 PM | These posts were written a while ago. I started with the first one and cringed at what I read, after yours. I can't imagine anything more beautiful than a woman with tendrils, carefully arranged, and a man lovingly brushing them back.
Where have all the men gone? | |
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Posted: 12/3/2005 6:38:46 AM | I guess the moral of these stories is, when you're in love, to never forget why you love her so much and to always keep that in your mind no matter where you are or what you're doing.
Even a simple smile, expressing how much you care about her, can brighten her entire day :)
Great stories. Thanks for posting them. | |
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Posted: 12/3/2005 7:51:25 AM | There's no reason any of us can't have the kind of love described here. It does take a willingness to say the words and make the gestures and BE the person who IS loving and devoted. You can even learn it, just by DOING it, until it becomes real.
If that is what you want, act that way, and it will become part of who you are. | |
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Posted: 7/16/2008 10:15:01 AM | Dude, you've made me cry.
All the romantic stories in the world can't replace seeing a couple like this.
Love exists.
I'll keep believing.
Thanks for a reminder!
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Posted: 7/16/2008 12:07:36 PM | My favorite love story involves my grandparents who were married 67 years. Grandma had been in a nursing home for several years, Grandpa visited her there pretty much everyday, weather permitting. After a few years, he became frail and decided to move into the same home. They were able to be in the same room, and the first evening he asked the nurse to move the beds together. They held hands all night.
They are both gone now, but their love lives on. | |
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Posted: 7/16/2008 4:20:28 PM | Stories like these remind me of the beauty in the simplicity of love. Unfortunately,
many of us, ( myself included) make the ideal of love complicated. When I remember the most loving moments in my relationship with my late husband, it was the simpliest of words and jesters. After he passed away I now realize the moments of pettiness that were wasted that could of been filled with simple moments of love and joy. If I ever have the opportunity of being in love again.....
Just listen to some of the old love songs, you'll understand.... | |
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