What is it with us that we can love to distraction?
When parents see a new-born, love swells in their bosoms for the new being, product of their love and union. It is with great pride that they show off the new addition to their family to relatives and friends. Grandparents almost swoon over their first grandchild too.
Ah! To hold once more, a baby in your arms….. the emotions are hard to describe.
When boy meets girl or vice versa, sparks fly and the chemistry sends hearts a-thumping and nothing matters but THE person. Everything else pales in comparison. Remember the feeling that you had to see that special person everyday or something is missing in life?
Ever experienced telepathy where concentrated focus on that person brings him to your doorstep?
No, this is not obsession. It’s simply being in love, as the young people would put it.
Even adults have experienced this situation where a loved on is the center of one’s life, his North, South, East and West. If this results in marriage, well and good, the happy-ever-after ending of every fairy tale.
However, to some, this is not the ending but a beginning, the beginning of a new chapter, in the book of their life. Subsequent chapters will be written in as per their journey together. There will be happy moments with cherished memories and there will be bitter-sweet ones too, when things do not go well. Such is life, with its ups and downs.
At the end of it all, in your twilight days, if you have survived so far, you can turn over the pages of your book of life and reminisce, living once again those moments. However, these can be colored, depending on the passage of time. Details can be added or subtracted, depending on one’s memory which can play tricks on one, as age progresses.
It’s good to start scrap-booking, to preserve the memories that have been captured in photographs. This is especially so as you can later on present to your child the scrap book that features the different stages of his life, from infancy to the present. Or you can do a scrap book of your own life, to leave behind as a legacy to your family so that the young ones can learn a bit of history, get to know what life was like in the past, when there were no computers, no handphones, no iPads.
This can be in tangible form, a hard copy or it can be put into digital form and saved in a CD. A pity that I do not have photographs of the different stages of my life. What a story they would have told!
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