The past couple of months, there have been lots of good news. Marriage, pregnancy, birth of kids. This year seems to be a blessed year somehow. Of course, there are also people like me who got invited to weddings, baby's first month celebrations, and rejoiced in news of upcoming babies, but can only be on the outside looking in, seeing how blissful the couple and parents are.
I read an advice about visualising on what you want and it will come true. It is not as if I have not visualised. Ever since I was fifteen, when I first carried my baby niece in my arms, I visualised a perfect guy, a perfect family, yearning for my turn to have my own family. Now, my niece is already sixteen, and still nothing in sight.
Not sure if any of you read Nicholas Sparks, but he really writes very moving love stories. And guys claim men can never be as emotional as women. The reason the stories he write are so moving is because some are based on true events. He used his parents, his sister, his courtship with his wife and grandparents as inspirations.
People will think stories are just stories, books are just books, movies are just movies, but he witnessed how his dad mourned for his mum for four years. How his wife's grandparents behave like newlyweds after fifty years of marriage. How he knew he wanted to marry his wife after just spending a day with her. How his brother-in-law never thought his sister was the one for him, but could not help falling for her, and married her despite she having a terminal illness.
If these are derived from real life experiences, then yes, it is possible for someone to love someone so much. It is possible to keep the love alive after having kids and grandkids and great-grandkids. It is possible to mourn and miss someone after you lost the person and remain faithful to the love, but it is also possible to move on and find a new love after time has healed all wounds. And real love is shown not in words or gestures, but whether you still want to be with the person despite knowing the person is terminally ill and may be a burden.
Men always scoff at sappy love stories, always scoff at emotional women, but the fact is, love is the only feeling that has outlasted everything else. Because it is so real. Everyone falls in love. Whether one can help it or not, love just comes. When it comes, it becomes so uncontrollable. Even if it is with the wrong person. Love is the only emotion that makes a highly intelligent person lose all his / her senses and do insensible things.
And that is why romance books still sell, romance movies are still popular. Because in general everyone is a romantic deep down. No matter how they deny it, no matter how men think being a romantic is weak, but deep down, they like romance too. They will be romantic too when emotions are triggered. And that is why love is such a powerful emotion, if one dares to love.
I read an advice about visualising on what you want and it will come true. It is not as if I have not visualised. Ever since I was fifteen, when I first carried my baby niece in my arms, I visualised a perfect guy, a perfect family, yearning for my turn to have my own family. Now, my niece is already sixteen, and still nothing in sight.
Not sure if any of you read Nicholas Sparks, but he really writes very moving love stories. And guys claim men can never be as emotional as women. The reason the stories he write are so moving is because some are based on true events. He used his parents, his sister, his courtship with his wife and grandparents as inspirations.
People will think stories are just stories, books are just books, movies are just movies, but he witnessed how his dad mourned for his mum for four years. How his wife's grandparents behave like newlyweds after fifty years of marriage. How he knew he wanted to marry his wife after just spending a day with her. How his brother-in-law never thought his sister was the one for him, but could not help falling for her, and married her despite she having a terminal illness.
If these are derived from real life experiences, then yes, it is possible for someone to love someone so much. It is possible to keep the love alive after having kids and grandkids and great-grandkids. It is possible to mourn and miss someone after you lost the person and remain faithful to the love, but it is also possible to move on and find a new love after time has healed all wounds. And real love is shown not in words or gestures, but whether you still want to be with the person despite knowing the person is terminally ill and may be a burden.
Men always scoff at sappy love stories, always scoff at emotional women, but the fact is, love is the only feeling that has outlasted everything else. Because it is so real. Everyone falls in love. Whether one can help it or not, love just comes. When it comes, it becomes so uncontrollable. Even if it is with the wrong person. Love is the only emotion that makes a highly intelligent person lose all his / her senses and do insensible things.
And that is why romance books still sell, romance movies are still popular. Because in general everyone is a romantic deep down. No matter how they deny it, no matter how men think being a romantic is weak, but deep down, they like romance too. They will be romantic too when emotions are triggered. And that is why love is such a powerful emotion, if one dares to love.
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