Treading the aisle of the park, I see the elegance of love to its mystified beauty. The old couple generally comes before twilight when there are less gentry doing their chores and when the tarmacs are mostly clear of gushing crowds. They must be in their mid-70’s and are ailing with multiple disorders as one can clearly observe.
The best part of their bondage is
that they walk in their own composure and speaking incessantly to each other.
The lady’s uncle is always at his narrative best and is mostly engrossed in parroting
the description of the park and its ambience as they move slowly and steadily.
The unfortunate part being Auntie’s blindness as I observe that she wears her dark glasses to avoid the sun’s direct glare, but as they say ‘Every cloud has a silver lining.”, and hers is an elegant smile on her face, which makes her charming and a noteworthy character treading past you, holding his beloved hand and drowned in her own thoughts.
Sometimes I see them sitting down
on the bench with a flask opened up and both having their evening tea-cuppa and
enjoying the generosity of nature – with chirping birds, squeaking of squirrels
and not to forget the pooches, who sit in front of them majestically with eyes
glued to those biscuit packets and with a hope of getting some of them.
The best part of both of them is
the camaraderie between the two – as if they were born for each other in this
lifetime. Aunty, though has severe constrains to her sight, has seen the whole
of the world as she creates her own little world based on the commentary by her
loving husband – as I again say , her smile says it all. I can’t imagine a world
without seeing it with my own eyes, just mere closing my eyes and trying to
emulate a life makes me shudder with fear and gloom, how this lady has lived
without seeing the world for so long. How does she visualize things and forms
her own image to the words she quietly listens from her husband – just magical
it may seem!
Both the aged ‘Lovebirds’ as I call them are a beautiful sight to watch – at this ripe age of their life, they both giving each other the much needed support and strength to continue is just a teaching for all of us – Quite hopefully, a day would certainly come in our lives when we along with our spouses would be sitting idly in a park or our balconies and talking of the journey of our life, remembering those beautiful moments of time when we were young and in control of our bodies and mind.
With each passing day, we all are approaching our may-day years, and this would be the time which we would be strongly wanting a company to assist us for our daily chores and for killing boredom.
The octogenarian couple as I see them today is a pre-emptive notion of our times to come, I always look forward to seeing them every day whilst I brisk-walk and jog on the aisle and every time I see them deliberately, I am amazed on the smiles on their faces and the happy mood they are in – I have no further clue about their family or how many children they have or if at all they live with them or not but all these questions and apprehensions become futile as I see both of them engrossed in their own small world and as a complete family altogether … Bless them as I concede this truth and looking forward to seeing them tomorrow with the same vigor and vitality of life… setting a true example of love, romance and care at this stage of one’s life…
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