Perfectly faded.
Broken in.
With a few holes here and there.
Loved.
No, not a favorite pair of jeans.
Perfectly faded, the tarnish of time gone by disguises the rough edges of actual occurences, leaving a smoothed-over surface behind.
Broken in from so many visits, recollections, rememberings, re-livings.
With a few holes here and there. Is that how events played out? Or I am remembering the way I wanted things to be, and not how they actually happenend?
Loved. Loving. Beloved. Loved ones. Warm and joyful memories carry us through to the making of new ones.
I often wonder if I will ever get too old to love my jeans.
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