Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Opa Johan Musing On Love


Opa Johan Musing On Love

How great it was when I was young and in love. I thought a marriage was the highest pitch in life.

But as I mused today, how sad were it so. What’s the use of getting married were it not possible to reach a  still higher pitch, level of happiness and bliss?

I never knew, realized that love could even grow grander, richer, mature in growing old, despite sickness, poor outward appearance, lack of money. And I thought of the happiness, joys of being a couple, a mother, a family, of sharing, of sorrow, of pain, of want, of “fidelity” and “infidelity”, the so sweetness of peace after a violent war, ...

What is a happy marriage without having to face the storms of life? A dull, stupid haven.

Sure, Opa Johan has just his simple down-to-earth thoughts, simple talk, he can never speak or write poetry in riddles.

June 2012


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