I exchanged some text messages with a friend today for whom life has dealt a pretty shitty blow lately. I suggested she needed some romance in her life, I stressed not a man, her reply struck me as somewhat scornful. It made me think: it's keeping me awake.
Everybody needs some romance.
Everybody needs a sunset; to stand and watch the sun dipping slowly towards the horizon, to see the sky come alive, rich with colours. When the sunbeams turn the atmosphere golden soft and slide like honey, caressing your skin more tenderly than any lover will ever do. The clouds become less vapourous carriers of moisture but discreet intimate companions hinting at natures sweetest secrets and all of it only for you. We need friends and campfires and warm nights with wine that you never want to end with no care for tomorrow. We need Sunrises that hint of so much promise that we dare to dream, when no dream seems too big and they seem less like dreams and more like plans. Nobody is ever too old for the pure joy of Snow flakes on your eyelashes and the wonder of all the ugliness in the world made soft and beautiful by those same simple Snow flakes. We need Soft rain and sighing winds. We need warm sand between our toes and long beaches to walk on, empty and all to ourselves, with only the harmony of hissing surf to accompany us. We need quiet and time in every day to dream. Do not think these things are luxuries, they're not, they are as essential as Air and Water.
Everybody needs some romance; it's what makes the shit tolerable.
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