Face Of The Stranger.

Through suspiscions and fabrication unseen, the brilliance of the stranger's mind will always shine through. These are the lives of the strangers around you. Admire their lives, and cherish your own.

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Twelfth stranger of many: An old couple posing for a formal photograph. Solemn faces, a average, tired posture. A modern American Gothic. And just that much more to ask about. To question the wisdom of the elderly would be foolish. But to question in what way that wisdom is processed, and what thoughts go through the minds of those growing in age, is a question not commonly asked, but a question that easily baffles the youth. In one lifetime, a person could have endured tens of wars, seen deaths, births, fights, and moments of peace. The list of experience goes on and on. The fact is, looking into the face of this couple, it makes me wonder what kind of life they have led. I wonder if this woman was a average house wife, or an adored model. If her husband was in the navy, or the head fo a prestigious business. Unless you hold a relationship with someone of that age, you will never be able to know the lives they led. I feel looking at the elderly, expecially from these two, a urge to know what its like to live a lifetime. Their blank expressions are a taunting enigma that will never be solved from the slightest of a first glance, or a intense study. Just knowing the endless possiblitlies there could have been for these two, causes me to submiss my curiosity and interpretation for these strangers. These lives, these simple folk, with feelings just like everyone else, are beyond me. Your final anwser my friend, is that no amount of calculations, interpetation or evaluation will ever unveil the secrets of the elderly, as simple as they are.  And I greatly admire that.

Twelfth stranger of many: An old couple posing for a formal photograph. Solemn faces, a average, tired posture. A modern American Gothic. And just that much more to ask about. To question the wisdom of the elderly would be foolish. But to question in what way that wisdom is processed, and what thoughts go through the minds of those growing in age, is a question not commonly asked, but a question that easily baffles the youth. In one lifetime, a person could have endured tens of wars, seen deaths, births, fights, and moments of peace. The list of experience goes on and on. The fact is, looking into the face of this couple, it makes me wonder what kind of life they have led. I wonder if this woman was a average house wife, or an adored model. If her husband was in the navy, or the head fo a prestigious business. Unless you hold a relationship with someone of that age, you will never be able to know the lives they led. I feel looking at the elderly, expecially from these two, a urge to know what its like to live a lifetime. Their blank expressions are a taunting enigma that will never be solved from the slightest of a first glance, or a intense study. Just knowing the endless possiblitlies there could have been for these two, causes me to submiss my curiosity and interpretation for these strangers. These lives, these simple folk, with feelings just like everyone else, are beyond me. Your final anwser my friend, is that no amount of calculations, interpetation or evaluation will ever unveil the secrets of the elderly, as simple as they are.  And I greatly admire that.
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