Canadutch
I was looking over some old blogs from this time last year and can’t believe how quickly the time has gone by. My parents always told me that the older you get the faster the time goes by. If it goes this quick now I think I year will go by in a blink by the time I’m 70…
Last year on November 7 I wrote about an older couple who lives in our building. This sweet husband and wife who still walked arm in arm and were still so much in love and happy with each other after so many years together. Whenever I saw them I wanted to squeeze them and keep them forever. Whenever we would walk by their apartment on our way somewhere, we’d see them waving at us through the window… I loved that about them. Always so friendly. For the past while I’ve noticed that it was only the lady in the window. I knew the husband was having some health problems so I thought perhaps he was in bed. The other night Xander told me he was talking to one of the neighbours and they told him that the man had passed away 4 weeks ago.
When he told me I almost burst into tears. I didn’t really know the man and we didn’t talk a whole lot, as we could just have very simple conversations because my Dutch was lacking. I still felt a loss though and my heart broke for that lady. Every day she will be sitting in the window alone and when she waves now there is a feeling of sadness rather than the happy vibes that came from them when they were still together.
How lonely she must be…
