SoCS — To the Left

Fandango

For this week’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt from Linda G. Hill, we are asked, when we sit down to write our post, to look to our left. What is the thing closest to you? Write about the memories that thing induces.

Okay, first of all, it’s Friday night and I’m not sitting down. I’m lying down. In my bed. And on my left is my wife. She’s reading a book, while I’m tapping out this post on my iPhone. What memories does this “thing” on my left induce? Wow, since that “thing” on my left and I have been together for 45 years, there is a whole boatload of memories. Where to begin?

We were a fix-up, a “blind date.” The first time I saw her, she reminded me of an Indian princess — a Native American princess, that is. And I was immediately smitten. It took her a while to cotton to me though. But I was persistent and somehow I persuaded her to move in with me and then to marry me, which she did about two years after that blind date.

And now, as I look to my left and watch her reading her book, I am reminded how lucky I am to have been fixed up with her 45 years ago. I can’t imagine what my life would have been like had we never met.

I’m a very fortunate man.

Photo credit: Annie Spratt at Unsplash.

17 thoughts on “SoCS — To the Left”

  1. Sadje May 8, 2021 / 4:54 am

    You’re indeed a fortunate man Fandango. And doubly fortunate as you realize it too.

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  3. pensitivity101 May 8, 2021 / 7:10 am

    Congratulations on 45 years. Hubby and I got married two years to the day after we met. It was a good move!

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  7. rugby843 May 8, 2021 / 8:43 am

    Aww, how romantic!  I am very happy for you both😍

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  8. J-Dub May 8, 2021 / 12:06 pm

    That’s just about the sweetest thing I ever read. Congrats on 45 years together.

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  9. RuthScribbles May 9, 2021 / 6:33 am

    It’s always good to hear of good relationships!! My second husband and I met on a blind date and 6 months later married-that meeting was 31 years ago.

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