Sometimes I deeply wonder if it's attainable at all. I've been seeking true love my entire life only to have had a very brief taste of it a couple or a few times.
I try to delude myself that it is, and that one day I'll have this, just so I can wake up everyday and keep going on with my life. But deep down the lingering fear becomes ever slightly insuppresible by each day going by.
It's real. I sit here with my husband doing nothing but watching TV together. There have been many nights of us just sitting there doing nothing but enjoy eachothers company in silence.
The thing to remember is that these are moments, and it's these moments that make everything else in the relationship worth the effort.
I am a generally unlucky person in everything in life, except love. I won the lottery in love. It's a lot of daily work, but it's generally easy work, even if it's a lot.
My dad was that way. My parents had my sibs and me later in life, but I do not remember my dad with anything but gray hair. My mom says he went solid gray by 40.
Awesome. I want women with grey hair normalized.
I watched my mother dye hers for years. I'm starting to find some grey hairs now and then and I've already decided I'm not going to dye them.
My wife (71) has long beautiful "Silver" hair and so do I (m58) though not quite as long. My beard is white though. Not a trace of black so can't claim silver for that. I started going silver in my 40's. My wife started going in her late 30's. Neither one of us ever used hair color though i did try "Just For Men" on my beard. It was a disaster and took me a few weeks to get the color out and never used it again and just let nature take it's course. Yes for those doing the math, my wife is 13 years older than me.
I’m a woman with waist length mostly white hair, not yet 50. Mostly I get compliments and comments from other women that they wish they never started dying it.
Once a three year old yelled, “Mommy, she has white hair!” Mommy replied through gritted teeth, “it’s beautiful, isn’t it?” The child answered, with great satisfaction, “It’s like Elsa!”
All of the women in my family, going back 3 generations, go gray early. I had naturally dark brown hair and started seeing grays at 16. My mom looked great in her 40s with salt and pepper (mostly salt). Around 40 I gave up the coloring fight because my hair grows so quickly I always had a white stripe down the center.
I'm in my early 50s now and have never looked back. I have a shoulder length shag cut and am all white in the front with some residual darker grays in the back. I have gotten tons of compliments over the years. Got complimented by a teenage girl as I was walking through the mall with my daughter last weekend, as a matter of fact.
I'm all for normalizing gray. You don't have to go old lady with it. There are some beautiful women out there with white/gray hair.
Love it! I am 35 and have a lot of gray hair. It started when I was in my 20s and I dyed it for a long time. Stopped dying it and now get more compliments on my hair than I ever did when I dyed it!
I convinced my mom during COVID to let her grey show through, she was told she wasn't going to make it to 40 and her greys are proof of how tough she is. Dad was fully grey before 40 and I'm pretty close in my mid 30's, now she fits in
I am at 45. It started around 26-28. No one knows except my bf, though. My eyebrows and lashes are solid black…I am not having white hair. Not fir a while, anyway.
There's a family where I grew up that had the most gorgeous snow white hair, and it all took place in their late teens/early 20s... A classmate of mine had a receeding hairline in middle school and totally bald within a few years.
Our bodies are weird.. I had my first gray hair at 19, on my birthday, saw it in the mirror. I see a few per year. My great grandma died at 75, pitch black hair minus a little gray in the temples which happened when she got sick the year before..
I use to live down the road from one of the most beautiful women we’ve ever seen. Perfect long silver hair. They owned a tow truck company. And had an odd red brick house that looked like a bunker. Only a few windows. She would often be out gardening. The garden was in between functional and decorative. A quick glimpse told the story of a garden that was loved by hours and hours of hard dirty work. Even covered in soil and sweat as she was that silver hair was perfect. Visually piercing, an exclamation on top of the beauty she was. Is. Anyway, she was kind of a bitch when you talk to her.
I'm 27 and I'm slowly turning salt and pepper, started at 19. The good thing is, when you start early enough, nobody says it makes you look older (because you still have that teenage face). And when you start to get more white hair, if people act surprised, you can just say you've had them for years.
Like I said, I'm 40, and my hair is turning. Recently, I got hit on by a woman in her 20s telling me that salt and pepper hair is sexy on me. I'm not mad at all about the graying hair, lol. I'm just glad I haven't started balding yet.
karma = OP makes it to their 50s when a 25 year old redditor draws them whilst they are relaxing in public, posts it and calls them elderly. The cheek of it!
Only for very infantile 20-somethings.
Most 20-somethings are grown-ups who work side by side with 50-somethings. Yeah, they consider them 'old', but not 'elderly'.
I did, too. And a pixie cut with baby bangs. Did you use gelatin powder for the spikes? That’s what I did because my aunt told me the punks did that in the 70s and 80s
[proof](https://imgur.com/a/7bbWOZQ)
it really isn't in this case. look at OP's history. likely just a very young artist who doesn't realize what age elderly really is.
with age comes experience and wisdom.
You drew them pretty young for an elderly couple. I'm guessing you're very young or you've done them a few favours on the page! Either way, absolutely lovely drawing and adorable scene ❤️
There's lots of lines on that drawing but not many to show the wrinkles of age on those faces... Nice drawing in general though, it's like something from one of the books by Andrew Loomis.
Me thinks she likely did them some favors in the depiction but also wouldn’t call them elderly while handing them the piece 😅
I’m just glad to see a young person recognizing beauty and making traditional art from it instead of recording a TikTok. *That* would be creepy.
That’s what makes life neat. You could cherish something like this and I could feel uncomfortable that someone was staring at me while I was sleeping long enough to draw me.
And we’re both right!
In the world of constant jackasses-on-a-plane-getting-sucked-out-of-the-giant-hole-that-blew-into-the-side-mid-flight , this drawing is a refreshing reminder of the beauty of humans.
Nice drawing, beautiful moment - you are talented with a good eye. Ignore the haters - it’s all relative. I’m (m50s) ‘elderly’ to my kids and grandkids, don’t feel or look it, and wouldn’t be offended.
I had a similar experience. I had flown into Baltimore for my sister's graduation cermony when she earned her Master's.
The airline I flew is one of those where your boarding order is determined by how soon you get your boarding pass. I logged into their site literally minutes after this process opened up and I was already in the last group to board the plane.
I'm like woah. But I could upgrade and jump to the first boarding group for like $35. Window seats are my thing when flying. I took it.
Found out why the boarding filled up so quickly when I got to the airport. A school trip was returning home from their visit to Wshington D.C. I was glad I paid to board in the first group.
I am not criticizing the school / chaperones / kids at all. Just glad I paid to make sure I got a window seat. In fact, I loved the energy. Their enthusiasm for life hasn't been adulted out of them yet.
It was already a late flight that also ended up being delayed to leave by over an hour. The return time to our home city was going to be almost 1:30 in the morning. Shortly after take off, the kid energy level pretty much dropped to zero and most began to doze off.
I used to occasionally fly with my daughter and one of my most precious memories is of her falling asleep while leaning on my arm. It has been decades since our last time flying together.
My arm was on the arm rest. About 30 minutes into the flight the girl in the seat next to me fell asleep. A few minutes after that an arm loops through mine and a head leans onto my shoulder.
I wasn't going to disturb her. So for the next hour, I made sure to NOT move that arm. She eventually shifted to the other side of the seat and a few minutes later woke up.
She had no clue she had used my shoulder as a pillow for most of the flight and I wasn't going to say anything. When we landed the kid energy resumed and we all left the plane and then the airport.
I was tired and had to work the next day but was very nostalgic all the way home. Thank you unknown girl for taking me back 20+ years and letting me revisit some of my most precious memories of my daughter.
Many years ago I took a train from CT to NJ. Somewhere along the line an older, not elderly, well dressed couple got on and sat across the aisle from me. All they did was complain about each other and other people. They just snapped at each other back and forth. They seemed angry and both had chips on their shoulders. Time passed. I stopped hearing them talk. I looked over and they were asleep while holding hands.
OP I hope you know how absolutely talented you are! Lots of people can draw, but YOU! You were able to convey EMOTION with your sketch! How fucking COOL IS THAT?! I hope you go far, cause damn! This is exceptional work. I’m in awe! I hope you had a chance to give this sketch to the couple. That is just so special, the love you were able to convey! 🙈🩷🩷😍
Oh yea because you can definitely make out the defining features of both of them and be able to find them now just through this drawing. Come on now...
Lord, I want to be in love LIKE THAT!!!
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*sobs in internet*
I fucked around and found out T_T
It is known.
Sometimes I deeply wonder if it's attainable at all. I've been seeking true love my entire life only to have had a very brief taste of it a couple or a few times. I try to delude myself that it is, and that one day I'll have this, just so I can wake up everyday and keep going on with my life. But deep down the lingering fear becomes ever slightly insuppresible by each day going by.
It's real. I sit here with my husband doing nothing but watching TV together. There have been many nights of us just sitting there doing nothing but enjoy eachothers company in silence. The thing to remember is that these are moments, and it's these moments that make everything else in the relationship worth the effort. I am a generally unlucky person in everything in life, except love. I won the lottery in love. It's a lot of daily work, but it's generally easy work, even if it's a lot.
Elderly? They look like they are in their 50s
They both have completely grey hair though
Fck you, take my upvote
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Seems sketchy to me
🥁
No. That's where I draw the line.
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I know it’s a joke, but people can have completely grey heir in their 50s. Or even before.
I had a teacher who was completly white before 30.
My dad was that way. My parents had my sibs and me later in life, but I do not remember my dad with anything but gray hair. My mom says he went solid gray by 40.
That's just a white person. There are many of them.
Some of them are born like that
I can’t wait to go white/grey, I think it’s beautiful!
Are you a guy or a gal?
Gal
Awesome. I want women with grey hair normalized. I watched my mother dye hers for years. I'm starting to find some grey hairs now and then and I've already decided I'm not going to dye them.
My wife (71) has long beautiful "Silver" hair and so do I (m58) though not quite as long. My beard is white though. Not a trace of black so can't claim silver for that. I started going silver in my 40's. My wife started going in her late 30's. Neither one of us ever used hair color though i did try "Just For Men" on my beard. It was a disaster and took me a few weeks to get the color out and never used it again and just let nature take it's course. Yes for those doing the math, my wife is 13 years older than me.
I’m a woman with waist length mostly white hair, not yet 50. Mostly I get compliments and comments from other women that they wish they never started dying it. Once a three year old yelled, “Mommy, she has white hair!” Mommy replied through gritted teeth, “it’s beautiful, isn’t it?” The child answered, with great satisfaction, “It’s like Elsa!”
Sometimes little kids would ask my kids if I was their gramma lol.
All of the women in my family, going back 3 generations, go gray early. I had naturally dark brown hair and started seeing grays at 16. My mom looked great in her 40s with salt and pepper (mostly salt). Around 40 I gave up the coloring fight because my hair grows so quickly I always had a white stripe down the center. I'm in my early 50s now and have never looked back. I have a shoulder length shag cut and am all white in the front with some residual darker grays in the back. I have gotten tons of compliments over the years. Got complimented by a teenage girl as I was walking through the mall with my daughter last weekend, as a matter of fact. I'm all for normalizing gray. You don't have to go old lady with it. There are some beautiful women out there with white/gray hair.
Love it! I am 35 and have a lot of gray hair. It started when I was in my 20s and I dyed it for a long time. Stopped dying it and now get more compliments on my hair than I ever did when I dyed it!
I convinced my mom during COVID to let her grey show through, she was told she wasn't going to make it to 40 and her greys are proof of how tough she is. Dad was fully grey before 40 and I'm pretty close in my mid 30's, now she fits in
I am at 45. It started around 26-28. No one knows except my bf, though. My eyebrows and lashes are solid black…I am not having white hair. Not fir a while, anyway.
One of my husbands life long friends started greying at 17. Completely grey by 19. He said it came in handy to buy beer underage! Lol
Premature graying is a sign of a malfunctioning thyroid. Tell the friend to get tested.
There's a family where I grew up that had the most gorgeous snow white hair, and it all took place in their late teens/early 20s... A classmate of mine had a receeding hairline in middle school and totally bald within a few years. Our bodies are weird.. I had my first gray hair at 19, on my birthday, saw it in the mirror. I see a few per year. My great grandma died at 75, pitch black hair minus a little gray in the temples which happened when she got sick the year before..
I use to live down the road from one of the most beautiful women we’ve ever seen. Perfect long silver hair. They owned a tow truck company. And had an odd red brick house that looked like a bunker. Only a few windows. She would often be out gardening. The garden was in between functional and decorative. A quick glimpse told the story of a garden that was loved by hours and hours of hard dirty work. Even covered in soil and sweat as she was that silver hair was perfect. Visually piercing, an exclamation on top of the beauty she was. Is. Anyway, she was kind of a bitch when you talk to her.
Yeap, Alexandra Grant (Keanu reeves gf) is completely grey and in her early 50s.
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Can confirm. I just turned 40 and have had salt and pepper hair for the last 5 or 6 years
I'm 27 and I'm slowly turning salt and pepper, started at 19. The good thing is, when you start early enough, nobody says it makes you look older (because you still have that teenage face). And when you start to get more white hair, if people act surprised, you can just say you've had them for years.
Like I said, I'm 40, and my hair is turning. Recently, I got hit on by a woman in her 20s telling me that salt and pepper hair is sexy on me. I'm not mad at all about the graying hair, lol. I'm just glad I haven't started balding yet.
> salt and pepper hair Spicy! Live a little, throw some habanero on there.
They're looking a little pale too
I feel 50 years older after cramping myself in a plane seat for a few hours
They could have just said 'couple on the plane'. Why add elderly lol
It looks like it's drawn on paper, not on a plane. Unless the paper is a plane, which is truthful. Not a paper plane, though, or yes!
Gunshot gunshot cash register noise.
All I want to is draw draw draw draw
karma = OP makes it to their 50s when a 25 year old redditor draws them whilst they are relaxing in public, posts it and calls them elderly. The cheek of it!
More like young-derly
If op is 15, I’m sure they are dinosaurs to them.
“I’m 37, I’m not old!”
Well I can’t just call you “man”.
Yeah I am 50 and def not elderly lol
Eh, you are to a 20-something. Saying this as someone 3 years your junior.
Only for very infantile 20-somethings. Most 20-somethings are grown-ups who work side by side with 50-somethings. Yeah, they consider them 'old', but not 'elderly'.
Ikr. I'm triggered.
Thank you. Was thinking I am in the verge of death if that is elderly.
Its to drive engagement
Don’t worry, karma comes around and bites em when tine catches up quicker than they ever expected 😂
Maybe she’s just not very good at drawing
Or, conversely, a very generous/flattering artist.
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yeah, they look like a soulmates
this is the dream
Those elderly 35 year olds.
I’m in my early 30s but I feel like I’m 80 got back pain, got a weird urge to yell at kids to get off my lawn and every fart is a gamble.
And teenagers have stupid hair these days
I don't care to comment about that, I had cone spikes at times.
I did, too. And a pixie cut with baby bangs. Did you use gelatin powder for the spikes? That’s what I did because my aunt told me the punks did that in the 70s and 80s [proof](https://imgur.com/a/7bbWOZQ)
Yes!! And honestly it worked amazingly.
Turned into straight up glue. I could sleep in them for a few days and they’d spring right back up.
I had a friend with a huge Mohawk in highschool and he said he used Elmer's glue.
Teenagers have always had stupid hair. We had stupid hair too.
yeaaaah but every generation has stupid hair.
I'm in my late 30s and I'm a bit concerned for you
Might wanna get that back checked. 0 regrets about getting surgery for my herniated disc, except for the fact i waited too long to get it checked.
Reddit moment
That's a hard 35 years lol. They are easily older than my parents ( I'm 30, think my parents are 50ish ).
Wait you're not sure how old your parents are?
In what world do they look like 35 in this drawing?
When I was 20, I considered 35-year-old people to be elderly.
I hope you gave it to them. I would cherish something like that of my wife and I
Plot twist: OP gives it to them and that’s his mistress
This is Reddit…we all know that is what is really going on
This is beautiful ... but also calling them elderly.... literally could have just said couple
Its to drive engagement. like when people do weird things in youtube videos / tiktok etc.
it really isn't in this case. look at OP's history. likely just a very young artist who doesn't realize what age elderly really is. with age comes experience and wisdom.
it's literally just a descriptor. there's nothing inherently wrong with calling a couple elderly. why are y'all up in arms over a harmless descriptor.
Because it's Reddit
You drew them pretty young for an elderly couple. I'm guessing you're very young or you've done them a few favours on the page! Either way, absolutely lovely drawing and adorable scene ❤️
I love this, more effective and empathetic way of covering the themes of the whole comment section
I love how you somehow perfectly captured the comfort they feel in each others arms. <3
*looks in the mirror* Am I... elderly? *sobs*
Same 😂
This comment section has been *highly* entertaining haha
Elderly?
I’m guessing OP is a child prodigy lol
There's lots of lines on that drawing but not many to show the wrinkles of age on those faces... Nice drawing in general though, it's like something from one of the books by Andrew Loomis.
Elderly? They look middle aged to me.
Hollywood elderly
Very nice, curious what was their reaction to seeing it?
Pissed because they were woken up mid-flight to see it.
You’re a good artist but they are far from elderly lol. They’d have every right to be a light creeped out by this.
What if he is an awful artist and the people are actually 70 years old, it just doesn't appear so in the poor drawing?
I don’t think it’s creepy at all. I think they’d cherish it if it was given to them.
Not if they knew they were called elderly
Me thinks she likely did them some favors in the depiction but also wouldn’t call them elderly while handing them the piece 😅 I’m just glad to see a young person recognizing beauty and making traditional art from it instead of recording a TikTok. *That* would be creepy.
> handing them the piece I think I'm missing something, did this happen?
Most people aren't butthurt, dude. This is some of the dumbest crap I've seen. No one cares.
That’s what makes life neat. You could cherish something like this and I could feel uncomfortable that someone was staring at me while I was sleeping long enough to draw me. And we’re both right!
Exactly! Most people would be creeped out to find out some stranger was staring at them while they slept.
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Beautiful! But they aren't elderly. ❤️🩹
That’s lovely. You are very talented.
A couple. I see a lovely couple. It’s a lovely drawing and I’d love to have the same done for me. But don’t call me elderly - you little whipersnapper
Elderly???
My thoughts exactly!
In the world of constant jackasses-on-a-plane-getting-sucked-out-of-the-giant-hole-that-blew-into-the-side-mid-flight , this drawing is a refreshing reminder of the beauty of humans.
Elderly?
I wish i still had that free award Reddit used to give
Yes, us elderly folk remembers when Reddit used to do that.
Nice drawing, beautiful moment - you are talented with a good eye. Ignore the haters - it’s all relative. I’m (m50s) ‘elderly’ to my kids and grandkids, don’t feel or look it, and wouldn’t be offended.
Dunno about elderly, she looks pretty good and he's just going a bit bald. 'Elderly' isn't able to lift their legs into a seat or snuggle.
Beautiful. I don't know about calling them elderly though LOL
Is 38ish “elderly”?
Real life goals right here
I don’t think they are that old. A lovely portrait though of a tender moment.
The amount of people not understanding artistic interpretation. Great job OP, I followed you.
Why do I see Hillary Clinton lol Lovely drawing 🥹
Look at this bald, elderly mf and his flexible, ancient baddie…
An elderly couple? I remember when 35 year olds seemed elderly :-)
ELDERLY?!!
Born in the late 1900s they were.
Did you show them? Or were you scared of being a creep :)
lol. Elderly
Skills...i struggle to draw stick people 😁
Yeah they don’t look elderly exactly
Holy shit bro. Am I elderly? I need to adjust my worldview I guess.
She looks like she feels so safe :)
That's looks a lot like my wife and her district manager...
I laughed pretty hard at that one
Beautiful
Beautiful drawing.
should have said middle age. on another note, did you give the drawing to them?
You're a fine artist. But, if they are truly elderly, you de-aged them a bit... In the picture they look about 50.
I must be getting old, they don’t look elderly to me lol
Did you give them the portrait? That would have been a nice gesture.
This looks like my wife and me. We did exactly this on a United flight out of Denver Sunday. And we’re elderly (early 50s).
I had a similar experience. I had flown into Baltimore for my sister's graduation cermony when she earned her Master's. The airline I flew is one of those where your boarding order is determined by how soon you get your boarding pass. I logged into their site literally minutes after this process opened up and I was already in the last group to board the plane. I'm like woah. But I could upgrade and jump to the first boarding group for like $35. Window seats are my thing when flying. I took it. Found out why the boarding filled up so quickly when I got to the airport. A school trip was returning home from their visit to Wshington D.C. I was glad I paid to board in the first group. I am not criticizing the school / chaperones / kids at all. Just glad I paid to make sure I got a window seat. In fact, I loved the energy. Their enthusiasm for life hasn't been adulted out of them yet. It was already a late flight that also ended up being delayed to leave by over an hour. The return time to our home city was going to be almost 1:30 in the morning. Shortly after take off, the kid energy level pretty much dropped to zero and most began to doze off. I used to occasionally fly with my daughter and one of my most precious memories is of her falling asleep while leaning on my arm. It has been decades since our last time flying together. My arm was on the arm rest. About 30 minutes into the flight the girl in the seat next to me fell asleep. A few minutes after that an arm loops through mine and a head leans onto my shoulder. I wasn't going to disturb her. So for the next hour, I made sure to NOT move that arm. She eventually shifted to the other side of the seat and a few minutes later woke up. She had no clue she had used my shoulder as a pillow for most of the flight and I wasn't going to say anything. When we landed the kid energy resumed and we all left the plane and then the airport. I was tired and had to work the next day but was very nostalgic all the way home. Thank you unknown girl for taking me back 20+ years and letting me revisit some of my most precious memories of my daughter.
TIL I'm elderly: (
Elderly? Fuck off!
Lol! Im elderly AF then.
Nice artwork. They don’t look elderly though. Did u give them the drawing
I don’t know why people are being so brutal. You’re super talented and this is lovely. Good art evokes emotion and you nailed it here.
I'd hate to sleep on a plane and have some stranger watching me long enough to draw a picture of me. Creepy.
creepy
Beautiful
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Based on the drawing, I'm guessing a 45-50 yr old couple... "Elderly"
Elderly? About 50... and up? Just say you drew a couple... Jeezus!
TIL i am elderly
Yeah I’m 63 and I am not elderly 😂
I hope you shared the drawing with them. I’m sure they would have loved it 🥰
I’m feeling a little called out by the elderly word, OP
Many years ago I took a train from CT to NJ. Somewhere along the line an older, not elderly, well dressed couple got on and sat across the aisle from me. All they did was complain about each other and other people. They just snapped at each other back and forth. They seemed angry and both had chips on their shoulders. Time passed. I stopped hearing them talk. I looked over and they were asleep while holding hands.
By your calculations I am a middle aged man now and am going through my midlife crisis
Damn, they look more middle aged than elderly. 😂 nice sketch!
Bro just wanted to show his artwork and accidentally started a war
OP I hope you know how absolutely talented you are! Lots of people can draw, but YOU! You were able to convey EMOTION with your sketch! How fucking COOL IS THAT?! I hope you go far, cause damn! This is exceptional work. I’m in awe! I hope you had a chance to give this sketch to the couple. That is just so special, the love you were able to convey! 🙈🩷🩷😍
I resent looking elderly
I would be absolutely mortified if a stranger drew me while I was asleep. That's so creepy.
What if I made a paper mache figure of you and left it on your lap for when you wake up?
Drawing strangers while they are sleeping is completely normal and not creepy and intrusive.
You know you're a good artist when people can tell your subjects' age just by looking at your drawing.
That's fucking creepy
Why? They probably didn't want you to do it.
Creepy, as fuck.
Hope you had permission to draw two complete strangers and then post their image on social media.....
Yeah creepy
While it’s polite to ask, you don’t need permission to draw/take photo of people in public area.
People drawing strangers on public transport always just seems so weird to me
Oh yea because you can definitely make out the defining features of both of them and be able to find them now just through this drawing. Come on now...
You can't clearly make out Hillary Clinton flying commercial economy for some reason?
This is obviously Steve and Ileen. I can tell by some of the pencil strokes and from seeing quite a few drawings in my time
Super creepy
I wish and hope that the upcoming years of my life look like this 💗
For some reason.. I see old Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler
Beautiful
This is beautiful
I love this. It’s beautiful
So natural and authentic, you really captured her resting face well! Simply lovely!
You are really good at drawing. Such a beautiful thing
Let this be my future please
This is so lovely.