http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness

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My Father, Stepmother and I went to celebrate the new job Friday night. After eating a nice meal at Bob Evans we went to the Ohio Theater which has apparently being running a summer long classics marathon of some kind. I looked in the brochure and they played Wizard of Oz not too long ago. Gone with the Wind. Citizen Kane. I mean these are the real classics. I looked for, but couldn’t find, To Kill A Mockingbird and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Those are two of my favorites(my high school government teacher would be proud). Anyways, so what does any of that have to do with loneliness?

I’ve had it on my mind all weekend that it’d be great to have a companion. Not a ‘girlfriend’, or anything else. The word for it is companion. Or maybe team-mate. I don’t know. When I was sitting in the theatre Friday watching Chinatown, every so often I’d look around and the place was filled with a lot of elderly couples. The cool thing was that they were all dressed up for a night on the town. Now chinatown was from ’76. But I could see how an elderly couple would enjoy getting dressed up to go see Wizard of Oz just like they did back when they were dating in the 30′s. And the theatre, this isn’t some amc ‘pirates of the caribbean’ theatre. It’s got plush seats, doormen, and old style ticket booths. I mean the place is just classic in every way. Which led to….

There’s just some kind of mysterious quality about the relationship between an elderly man and woman that….well…I want. You can just sense that they are companions and teammates in life and its just awesome really. I don’t know if it’s possible to find that with a 24 or 25 year old girl. And thats not because of anything on their part. I don’t know if I’m actually capable of seeing past the annoying b.s. we young people get ourselves into for the sake of that little word ‘love’. I think that those individuals who have ‘been there’ ‘done that’ for 50 years have learned not to worry about the meaningless b.s. What’s that old phrase? “Youth is wasted on the young”. I don’t think I’m wasting my youth, but I do sometimes wonder if I’m wasting my time. Not that being in love is the pinnacle of existence or anything, but there sure are times where it’d be nice.

Take a look at the girl in the picture I posted up there. Somehow, I could see her as the type of girl who would enjoy going to the Ohio Theatre for a night out over just about anywhere else. I’m still settling into the whole job thing(believe me, I haven’t come close to fully adjusting), but I’m thinking about keeping an eye for a girl like that. I don’t really know much of anything(In truth, were my soul laid bare you’d just see a walking series of assumptions), but there are just days where I’m tired of feeling lonely. It’d be nice to come home to a girl like that. To a relationship like that.

A question to leave you with: Do you think its possible to sense the kind of love a person is capable of giving? Or is it just a ‘wait and see’.