“The Best We’ll Ever Look”

I was sitting ‘kuiering’* with Sanet, a bride whose wedding I did earlier in the year, when her husband Mervyn came in from work, looked at the art paper enlargement I’d delivered for them and said, “That’s the best we’ll ever look”. It’s one of those throw away comments that really struck me with it’s simple truth, but that I didn’t really have the time to process when it was said.

Sitting here tonight thinking about it – while I’m meant to be getting ready to go to a staff social of my husband’s (one that I have to admit I completely forgot about) – that comment keeps coming back and floating around in my head.

I look at Dan and my wedding pics (and some of you know the story of those!) and I think: that is the best we’ve ever looked. And we’ve got really crappy photos to show for it. And I would love so much for Dan and I to really have pics where we could turn around at age seventy and go, “Weren’t we gorgeous young things? Didn’ we shine? Weren’t we so very in love?”

Anywho.

That’s my random thought for the day. I guess I’m feeling a bit nostalgic.

*If you’re not from South Africa and you’re reading this: kuiering is Afrikaans for visiting . . . and talking . . . and drinking coffee.