Saturday, July 29, 2006

Too many self-reflective posts in too few days. That cant be good for anyone. Time to go back to the all objective impersonal self again.

Yesterday (that is 29th) was my grandparents 61st marriage anniversary. 61!!! I dont even want to live that long! I cant imagine what it would be like, to live with somebody for that long, day after day, year after year. Granted that they probably got married really early, and all that. But you should see them even today. Every evening after all the soaps have been watched, and eyedrops have been given, and medicines have been taken...they lie down next to each other on the bed and talk and talk and talk. About everything under the sun. Politics, serials, grocery-list, relatives, me, neighbourhood people. Didun cant hear too well and she also keeps forgettin what she said 5 minutes back, but she can remember every birthday and wedding date of every single person that she has known. Dadun used to be this hot blooded young man, and he can still manage to get pretty angry sometimes, but for her, he repeats the same trivial fact over and over again. He is the only one in the family who deals kindly with her forgetfulness, it seems like Alzheimers but we are more or less comforting ourselves with the old-age theory. If that is like not the most dedicated kind of commitment, i dont know what is. Some people would hate it...being helpless, dependant, basically feeling unwanted, unloved...but something tells me these two 'oldies' are enjoying a second round of their twenties, without the least bit of care about all of those above mentioned things. They're happy, carefree, raring to live...
As long as they have each other.

5 comments:

Loony Libberswick of Llapland said...

aww.They are really cute together :)
wow, I remember last year! Ak bochor hoye galo??

The Nutty Pea said...

older people in love...is just too sweet for words. but yeah...the 61 yrs things IS SCARY...i cant even begin to imagine what it must be like, living with someone for that long!

Random Doodler said...

i knw...i run out of conversation with people after 2 weeks flat! those guys obviously knw sumthn we dont!

~Moo-lah Buz!nezzz~ said...

i wud defnitely love to hv a new anniversary every year!!!....:D....gettin busy for 61 years is pretty tuf.....

kudos to ur grandies!!!

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