Blog 3130 – 05.26.2024
Young At Heart
“And if you survive to a hundred and five, think of all you’ll derive out of being alive, if you are among the very young at heart.” There’s a line for you that goes very well with my wife’s favorite poem that she has shared with me for over thirty-five years:
“Come grow old with me
The best is yet to be.”
It is from the poem by the Scot poet Robert Browning pictured in its entirety above.
It is fear, disillusionment, and disappointment that cause us to grow old of heart. The body and mind will age and both eventually fail us but, romantic and optimist that I am, I believe with the heroine in the 1998 movie Titanic that my heart will go on and on.
They wrote a new love story to go with the sinking of the Titanic in that movie. In the new story a young and beautiful woman named Rose is about to marry a rich man she does not love. Aboard the ship sailing home to New York where she is to wed she meets Jack a poor young artist who sneaks upper deck from steerage. Jack sketches her in all her glory wearing a beautiful diamond necklace that her fiancée is planning to give her when they wed called “The Heart of the Ocean.” The young lovers are found out and the body guard of the rich man intends to kill Jack and throw him overboard. Jack escapes and rescues Rose. By this time the Titanic has hit the iceberg and the unsinkable ship is sinking. Unable to get Rose into a lifeboat,Jack does nevertheless get her onto a large floating door. Though that door looks large enough for two, gentleman Jack hangs on to the side for as long as he can before slipping into he icy depth below leaving Rose to be rescued with those in the lifeboats by a nearby ship that heard the Titanic’s final SOS.
Rose has secretly kept hidden the diamond necklace all those years though it was thought to be at the bottom of the sea with the Titanic. Many years later the crew who finds the Titanic and search it with a submersible drone find the stateroom safe in which the diamond was thought to have been locked away. After bringing the safe aboard the salvage vessel, inside it all they find is the sketch of Rose. After locating the by now quite elderly Rose they have her flown out to the salvage vessel to tell her story. She does over several days leaving out the details of what happened to the diamond necklace. Alone on a night stroll Rose tosses the Heart of the Ocean over the rail into the sea where it was believed to have been all those years resting with Jack and all those who perished that fateful day.
“Fairytales can come true. It can happen to you, if you’re young at heart.”
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White
Young At Heart
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