Clara Cho

I choose such a great title to write about.

When we grew up in our country, Korea, I did not hear the word love very often nor used the word very often. As far as I know, this word is hidden in our hearts and we used the word "thinking" more often used. Even during more than 50 years of marriage, between me and my husband, we never say or hear the word I love you between us, however, we believed that we love each other.

And when we bring up our children, I seldom told them that word, that is why our grown up children seldom say I love you that word says to us.

Except for our grandchildren, when they phone me, after the end of a conversation they will say that Halmuni "I love you" so I will tell them "I love you more than you love me". Then they will say "I love you the most". Hearing that words after turning off the phone, my heart still feels warm, and I am thinking next time I will say before she says to me. Yet, the next time comes, I will forget and she always says before me.

I think our culture of Korean at that time, especially, oriental people do not show emotion like these days, since we always called ourselves a quiet, sunrise eastern country with scholar-minded ones, that we were more respected.

I would like to write about the great love in literature in Dante and Beatrice's love story that is they only met twice in their lifetime. As you know that Dante Alighieri is an Italian poet and Beatrice is a young girl who was 7 years old and Dante was 8 years old that age they met for the first time and the second time when they become adults, walking on the street in Florence, even though they had never spoken to each other, probably.

With just a glance, Dante fell in love with her, yet, she died when she was 24 years old, he wrote about her in his poem all his lifetime, in happen only literature.

Not too long ago, I joined Kakaotalk to get connected with friends and small events happening in our Korean community. The benefit's joining that site brings a lot of good words and Korean songs, health, and all kinds of information about getting old gracefully, which I received endlessly. Someday, we might not need family Doctors even, since we could get most of the information through that site tell us.

Yet, I noticed most of the good words for the senior, whoever makes the site use too often "Love" that so much.

I think that the value of love words could decrease, and make seniors confused about Love. At the first time, I was very much submitted those words, sometimes I have to think about a situation where the words have value or real meaning, that is only my opinion.

Now, after a while, I noticed the world is changed and I was in an old fashioned and did not follow the change of this society as well another thing I learned from social media is to accept the situation of human contact which make increase the closeness between persons.

Not too long ago, I visited my grandchildren who live in a different country, so I called them long-distance grandchildren.

There I practiced hugging as often as possible which make me feel more closeness to my grandchildren.

Above all when I met my friend whom I have not seen for more than 5 years, I hugged a lot and dearly that I felt so close and good, she was even surprised.

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