let's grow old together.

picture from chen li's blog that moved me.
you'll be surprised how many people can't grow old together.
growing old together.
it's not romantic.
it screams "commitment".
look at that person and see the white hair and wrinkles that will surely come.
see the smile and know that one day you'll see more frowns.
growing old is inevitable.
but growing old with someone is a gift.
because you were given the ability to bear another for a lifetime.
and to deny your desire for a younger, prettier/more charming thing.

i wonder,

if people thought more about the inevitable future
before they got into relationships,
would there be less unfaithfulness,
less anger,
less bitterness,
less "irreconcilable differences"?

or were man-made things simply never made to last?

but marriages were not man-made.

perhaps, then, there is hope.



[people say Melancholies have dramatic mood-swings. i think it's true.]