| A woman in her forties is sitting out in her yard, | | | | commitment, the other seeking love that involves |
| waiting for the school bus to arrive home with | | | | an impractical outlook on what life after the |
| her kids in them. The edged life that she's lived is | | | | romance fades will be like. They are both thinking |
| written all over her face, particularly around her | | | | of the knight in shining armor. |
| eyes and her mouth where webs of wrinkles | | | | The older woman thinks that she does NOT mind |
| surrounds them. She is a beautiful woman with | | | | that her knight changes once in a while as long as |
| dark, splendidly wide eyes and a pouty mouth one | | | | the romance remains hot. |
| would liken to Jolie. Her husband just came home | | | | The younger woman believes that there is only |
| from work but without a word to her, he has | | | | one knight in shining armor and she unabashedly |
| disappeared into the room, hiding a bottle of gin | | | | thinks that he is the one. The younger girl has her |
| under his coat, she guessed. | | | | heart set on the first knight that strode up to her |
| For this woman, there is no hope of ever finding | | | | while the older woman believes that there is |
| true love...she once had the chance, but it's gone | | | | almost always one more knight out there. |
| now. She's passed it up simply because they | | | | Love is a consistent work-in-progress....there is no |
| were not meant to be. Sometimes she is | | | | end to the process and the search is a |
| bemused with her decision - fated to be never | | | | never-ending one, therefore, there is no such |
| together, always apart and longing for the | | | | thing as one single knight in shining armor. In |
| fairy-tale romance that she could have had. | | | | comparison, the older woman is, undoubtedly, |
| *** *** | | | | closer to the truth than the younger one. But her |
| Above is an illustration of not what love is, not | | | | perception of love is unreliable because giving up |
| what love is supposed to be about, not about | | | | every time something is not working is not the |
| what romance long-gone....but it's about the loss of | | | | way relationships are supposed to work. We're |
| hope in finding true love. You see, I've been in | | | | supposed to work things out when there are |
| contact with a divorced woman who longs for | | | | things that irk us until we reach a point where |
| love so much but she does not long for marriage. | | | | reparation is no longer worthwhile. |
| And I'm in contact with a teenager who thinks | | | | The breaking point where knight in shining armor |
| that she has found true love and that she will | | | | turns into orge with bad habits depends on our |
| marry her college mate within a couple of years | | | | individual tolerance, patience, faith and willingness |
| because he is her knight in shining armor. | | | | to turn a fairy-tale turn sour into reality. |
| These women, divided by decades of difference | | | | Love is effort in bringing our heads back to the |
| where age is concerned, share one thing in | | | | ground after we find out that there is no such |
| common. Love. They are seeking love. One | | | | thing as magic. |
| woman seeking forever love without the | | | | |