silver jubilee

Today my parents celebrate their 40th anniversary…
How about that?
Forty years together!!!
I don’t know about you, but it sounds out of this world to me! Forty consecutive years with one another…
Sure, there have been some fights. Lots of yelling. Some glasses even breaking on the wall, hahaha… But, if you look at them , you just know they are happy. At least as happy as one can get in this life… And I won’t ever forget one thing I have listened my mother saying over the phone to one of her friends. She didn’t know I was listening, obviously: «What can I say, my dear… He’s a stubborn kind of fellow, my husband, oh yes he is. But do you know what? I was watching him the other day, sorting out his books in the huge library of his and I thought, “If I could turn back time, I would fall for the same guy again”… What can I say? I am still under his spell».
Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to create this image of the all American family with my folks being head over heels in love after forty years of marriage, two crazy kids and one lovely grand daughter… However, what I would like to point out is that… I kind of envy them. Sure, my dad never learned to program the VCR [although that knowledge would have been proved useless in the dvd era…] and my mother never approved of my obsession for Bad Brains BUT… they seem just fine to me. All right. Balanced. Calm… In terms with themselves. And more than satisfied with their choices.
I am 31 and I still cannot say the same thing about myself… I cannot imagine myself mature enough to cope with parental demands… I don’t have a stable career, the way my father had in my age…. And I don’t think I deserve to be loved the way he was…
Nevertheless, I consider myself to be one hell of a lucky bastard. My parents gave me the privilege to afford to have my own problems and nothing but. I wish I could do the same one day for my children [if any…]
So, mom & dad, I know u r not reading this, but from the bottom of my heart, I wish that, in ten years’ time, you will be both healthy to celebrate your golden jubilee as well. Knowing that you are out there, still doing the right way whatever it is you are doing so well all these years, makes me feel that this world is a better place…
Love,
Your son…

P.S. Ok you guys I know this is not the most rawk’n’roll post ever, but it was the only thing I felt like writing today. Cheers!