So why do so many couples kiss in front of them?
Why do so many old people sigh when they see one?
When did it become normal to be happy for a sunset?
I would like to meet the lady who proposed it (for it must have been a woman, you see) and give her a piece of my mind. Once she had inserted the piece, she might come round to my way of thinking and stop the whole nonsense once and for all. And if it was, in fact, a man (which I find to be a highly irregular theory) I suppose I shall pop him in the jaw.
Sunsets.
They're for the birds.
Thought of the last line last and regretted not writing about trees or bushes or something equally catty.
ReplyDelete(For the record, I prefer sunrises.)
ReplyDeleteBut perhaps (and I'm going to swing into romantics for a bit because it's early and I can't sleep [again]) perhaps sunsets are beautiful when you can curl up with the one you love afterwards. When you can end your day holding someone's hand and knowing they aren't going to leave you, so that when you wake up in the morning to everything you have to do and everything you haven't done, they'll be there, working, just as you.
Maybe the thing that makes sunsets beautiful is the fact of the coming dawn . . .
(Also, I liked the bird line. I highly dislike birds, so for me it wrapped up the feeling of dislike for sunsets quite nicely.)
Robby, sunsets aren't ending; they're beginnings. For one thing, "Exits are entrances somewhere else." For another, according to Scripture, evenings are the BEGINNINGS of a day, not the ends. That's why it says "Evening and morning" and not "Morning and evening," and that's why Sabbath starts at sunset on Friday night.
ReplyDeleteNow, I've never kissed in front of a sunset, and I've never kissed at midnight on New Year's Day, and I never will, but I think perhaps the principle's the same: "We've completed _____ together, and now we're starting the new ____ together." So . . . sort of what you said, except that there is always a new beginning at the end, and there's something . . . binding? . . . about facing that tomorrow with someone special.
It might have been a gay man. They know romance, and they're not repressed about it like other men are.
sunsets look awesome. THAT'S why. I'm a very visual person, and I enjoy 'pretty' things. So I like both sunrises and sunsets. I actually think I like sunsets more though for some reason. of course, I like darkness, so that may be it. Shame on you robby. Sunsets rule.
ReplyDelete'Tis the difference between Galadriel and Arwen. Both are beautiful, but in very different ways.
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ReplyDeleteAGREE WITH ME GOSH
Sunsets are just things. I don't think they're worth creating bile or froth over. I think they're just light filtering through dust. Sometimes it's pleasant, more often than not they're blase.
In other words: because I don't care a whit about whether sunsets are good or not, congratulations on typing comments trying to convince me.
I'm sorry; I guess I assumed you always posted stuff that you thought was worth thinking about. I couldn't figure out a way not to end that with a preposition. Oh, look-- I've done it again.
ReplyDeleteI do. It's an interesting construct, but it is not my struggle personally. Obviously it struck a chord with somebody, though, as you guys all seem quick to rush to a sunset's defense.
ReplyDeleteDon't know why. They're just things I don't get.
I love that you call it a struggle.
ReplyDeleteI can't say I was trying to defend the suset, per se; I was more . . . trying to help you understand it. I mean, I'm not all romantic (or Romantic) about sunsets myself, but my parents are, and I can understand why, and so I don't mind them driving ridiculous distances to watch the sunset over a mountain/lake/beach/interesting rock formation/waterfall. Would I myself have chosen to do that? No.