“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
Have you ever seen this quote, widely misattributed to Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne?
It's true.
I don't care how long I live. That doesn't mean that I want to die--don't get excited. It's that it doesn't matter how long it lasts, the length of time. What does matter is that I want none of it, and nothing, without this love.
This past week, someone who's known me almost my whole life told me that I'm a romantic. There are plenty of disparate definitions of that word, of course, Some of them make me a little squeamish, and others kind of proud. I guess it's apt, in any case.
[from a list originally found on Tumblr - this is #52; the title quotation is by Charles Bukowski, from Bone Palace Ballet]
I've always struggled with this quote as it implies the two people would be precisely the same age with the same birth date. That just seems unlikely. I appreciate your sentiment however.
ReplyDeleteYou take the literal approach to the quote, rather than the liberal or metaphorical, though of course your point is valid.
DeleteFor what it's worth: a former boyfriend of mine, someone I thought might be my forever, is precisely the same age with the same birth date. Food for thought.