True love
We talk about love, we sing about love, we write love poems, but do any of us know what real love is? Let me tell you a little love story.This year, we are celebrating my great grandmother´s 100 anniversary. Although she will turn 100 years in one month, and she has a few health problems that came with the age, she is the most joyful person I will ever known. But this little story is about love. When she was 16 years old she felt in love. At 17 years old she got married and at 18 she already had her first child. She had with my great grandfather 7 children. They were happy and as in love as in the first days. Then the Second World War came and our country decided to go to war. This is when she lost her husband and the love of her life. She was young, beautiful and with her heart shredded to pieces. And yet she managed to raise all her children, a few grandchildren and her favorite great-grandson … me. She loved us all, and we all felt her love, we all feel her love and her kindness. She has and as a young woman had so much to offer, but after my great grandfather was lost she never looked again at another man. She lives her life with the thought that at the end she will be reunited with the love of her life and she is happy and she was there for all of us whenever we needed.
For me … this is love and I don´t think that I will ever find it.
Comments (6)
WOW i love these romance love stories.. there are so many from that time period and before and during the war and its shocking how we have become a world for no tolerance of anything. Back before the war you made an effort in a relationship and you had soo much more tolerance for faults. Now a days if a guy leaves his socks on the floor its dump time lol ...
Having said that these days women will not put up with roving eyes and wondering hands ...
anyway i love reading (and hearing) about these reationships where LOVE is true, honest and ever lasting .. which is what we believe as children !!!
Thank you for sharing :)
kel xx
But hey...should we ever give up? My answer is an absolute NO!
... I´m sorry ... I´m talking nonsens. Too tired I guess. I´ll try again tomorrow :)
On the other hand, I do think that true love never changes. If I find true love it would be the same as when your great grandmother found true love. I just think the odds of finding it in our times are much worse...haha..
I know its out there though. My grandmother did something similar, I believe. Her husband died unexpectedly at a young age, and she never remarried.
But I also know someone now who is a recent widow and is already dating again. Times have changed, thats all. Instant gratification is mainly what people seek in todays society.