The Look

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Saw a lovely sight today. A couple eating salad...urgh! (or yum! depending on where you fall on the salad-enjoying-spectrum). But many things made that simple salad scene soulful. 

One, he was actually gazing at her. 

Two, she was laughing like a little lass in love. 

Three, neither of them checked their phones once during the meal. 

Four, they were not young, they were in their forties. 

Yet, instead of the constantly distracted, I-have-a-long-to-do-list look, and more commonly these days, a vacuous stare on their faces illuminated by the hazy blue light from their phones, this couple was engaged with each other...truly engaged, almost in the way actors in movies do...locking their eyes together, y’know, the deep, I-can-see-into-your-soul look!

I guess I am not surprised that I was startled by the simple salad scene...for the soulful look is vanishing super fast in today’s iphone crazed, whatsapped world.