Last love: a romance in a care home (2023)(theguardian.com)
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Last love: a romance in a care home (2023)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/23/last-love-a-romance-in-a-care-home
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One of the most depressing things I've ever read
I found it strangely uplifting. Widowed three times, failing health, yet she still manages to find joy in the little things.
It's always the little things that matter.
It's always the little things that matter.
That someone found love in a care home?
The article as a whole. Like, life shouldn't be that harsh.
We all hope for a last love.
I've read the introduction, guessed it will end in tragedy, skimmed fast through the article, jumped in the end and confirmed it ended in tragedy and saved myself from ruining my mood from reading something depressing.
Everything ends in tragedy eventually.
They got some time together, so it's a happy story overall. It's all any of us could ask for.
They got some time together, so it's a happy story overall. It's all any of us could ask for.
Funny, I always enjoy reading anything dark/morbid/depressing. Tends to have the opposite effect of putting a pep in my step - all those things add flavour and texture to life and make me appreciate being alive.
You have no empathy?
That's very uncharitable reading.
What's charitable one?
They replied to you already. I wish you had more empathy.
I don't buy it
Interesting. Well, I can only tell you that I'm not lying.
I can totally picture and feel how she would feel. I understand the jubilation of falling in love, and I understand the pain of losing loved ones - especially when it's sudden, unexpected, and tragic.
I've felt all of those things before in my own life. We all do, sooner or later.
But pain is also what imbues things with meaning. All of the greatest human stories are about suffering and how we as humans respond to it. That's why it puts a pep in my step - because it's meaningful, provocative, evocative, and inspiritational.
Life would be dull without loss.
It's a radical perspective maybe, and maybe even an irrational one, but hey - it works for me!
I can totally picture and feel how she would feel. I understand the jubilation of falling in love, and I understand the pain of losing loved ones - especially when it's sudden, unexpected, and tragic.
I've felt all of those things before in my own life. We all do, sooner or later.
But pain is also what imbues things with meaning. All of the greatest human stories are about suffering and how we as humans respond to it. That's why it puts a pep in my step - because it's meaningful, provocative, evocative, and inspiritational.
Life would be dull without loss.
It's a radical perspective maybe, and maybe even an irrational one, but hey - it works for me!
>I can totally picture and feel how she would feel. ... I understand the pain of losing loved ones - especially when it's sudden, unexpected, and tragic.
And enjoy feeling pain? Or you just understand but not really feel?
And enjoy feeling pain? Or you just understand but not really feel?
Opposite, got a lot of it. But I do err on the less sympathetic side - I don't believe in feeling sorry for ourselves or each other under most circumstances. Life is a test of our resolve.
Exactly that. Gives me a kick. Do stuff now. Don't wait.
You only read the depressing bits ;)
Bloody hell - that hits hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWc8g6-N7cE