she’s a keeper

The emotional experience from past events to motivate my writing, I just don’t have that strong of feelings for a girl I suppose but I have this itch to just write.

I met an old man from my philosophy class this semester and he was a cool guy, we’d talk every day and he’d tell me all these stories. We got onto the subject of women and I told him about this girl I am seeing and he told me about his wife. Of course we happened upon the topic of love and that is when he began this amazing dialogue with me. He told me that every morning he’d wake up, kiss his wife and would always tell her “Good morning my dear, I love you so much” and at night he would tell her the same thing. Even if they had argued that day or the day before he never went to bed or woke up in the morning  angry to point where he would never say it. He told me he did this because every day is never guaranteed, I said “well of course who know’s when one will die” I assumed that was what he meant but he went on to say “Well yes, but everyday love is not guaranteed, as quickly as one can fall in love one can get up and walk away” So I said “This is true, what of you and your wife now my friend” his response was “Well my beautiful amazing wife passed away a year ago I miss her so very much” It was thing I have ever witnessed in my short 19 yrs of life. In his face, in his eyes, in his very heart you could feel and see the sadness but he smiled and told me ” She was my everything and those 53 yrs we spent together were the best years of my life and I tell ya what kid on her death bed I kissed her that morning and said Good morning my dear, I love you so much. And right before she left this world I held her hand, I kissed her and said Good night my dear, I love you so much”. He began to weep a little, and I honestly had no words of comfort. For what could really ease such a pain? I just sat there and teared up with him I never felt such sadness from someone it killed me inside. He told me afterward that even now he finds it difficult to be truly happy, but every morning and night he still does the same routine but through prayer.