I am a hopeless romantic. Always have been. I love those romantic movies - one of my fav's is Notting Hill - and I love the idea of being swept off my feet. I know it's mushy and unrealistic but I get such a warm fuzzy feeling when I think about a love life like that.
I often think about an elderly couple I saw a few years ago at work. They must have been at least 80 years old. They came into the bookshop hand in hand and as they asked me their questions about some book we had in stock, I noticed how in love they were. They had been together for over 50 years and were still smitten. They were so attentive to eachother's needs and so caring. It was wonderful to see and it gave all the girls working that day a bit of hope. Now most of us girls just want a nice, kind man to adore us so that we can adore them in return. That kind of relationship is unfortunately not something you see much of these days. Or so I thought....
My mom came to visit me this past weekend for my birthday. She came down with her new beau, a strapping gentleman named Allan. A few days with those two and I realised that the adoration business is thriving. They were like two teenagers! It was great and so entertaining. It was wonderful to see my mom smile like that - or was that all the red wine?
I started to think about the people around me and those I see almost every day and realised that almost everyone is adoring someone at the moment. Even me. mmmm....Dave. Granted, our relationship is a little long distance and slightly more complex than most. So today I hope you are being adored and adoring in return. I hope it makes you smile.
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I'm still waiting to be adored! But I am secretly adoring someone tee hee..
Although it often seems that the people you adore, adore another person, we can have faith in physics that the parallel universes have to collide somewhere along the line ;-)
Ah... but does it last?
Wendy - you are single because u refuse to take my directions - I introduced you to some really hot folks yesterday ;P!
No seriously, no one is more single than me and I think that while relationships are here to enhance our lives, they are definitely not essential to living a happy life. I think the secret to ever finding happiness in a relationship is finding happiness in yourself and being happy by yourself.
No other half can make you!
I suppose I am a romantic at some level, but I feel like "why should I settle for less in order to fulfil a fantasy of what my ideal relationship would be?"
I believe in fate, so if I am suppose to end up with an individual who makes me feel so great about myself and makes me feel that "unconditional love" then I'll know it.
As far as adoration is concerned - We all adore you, you are fantastic and I refuse to allow you to settle for any b-grade Hugh Grant lookalike.
Lastly, Happy Day after Birthday, I've update my BLOG [http://twanjikalula.blogspot.com] and there are links on it to my fashion week gallery (I put some pics up there just for you!).
Hmmm... you are such a groupie! Twanji's got some sound thinking. I do agree with Karen, though, in that infatuation wears off after a while, and what's left must therefore constitute love. True cerebral love, not just stupid hormones. Now that's romantic!
I have always believed in Lust at first sight. If you can stay together for a year or so after the initial 6 month Lust phase, you have it made. :) Dam I've been married something like 22 years, so I guess it worked huh?
Happy Birthday Wendy!
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