Scared Bunny

The strangest things get to me.

There are some commercials out from Ikea that show a couple at bedtime. Oddly, it's not the idea of a couple that hits me. It's not even the fact the couple is in bed together. While those are both things I miss, I make it through those things ok. They get to me obviously, just like any reminder of a loss would. But I have been through enough that I can handle that pain without much of a problem.

The part that gets to me, in both ads, is what the wife does when she is in bed. In the first she climbs in to bed with her husband already asleep, and pulls his arm over her to go to sleep. In the other they are both asleep and she does the same thing. That little gesture really gets to me.

I miss holding someone. I lie alone in my bed, with my arms around a pillow, but it just isn't the same. I miss rolling over and having someone there. I miss having someone in my arms. Even more, I miss being held.

There is a sense of security I get from being held that I have never gotten any other way. When someone is holding you you can tell whether or not they love you. You feel as if they will always be with you. You never want that feeling to end.

Every time I see those commercials I feel a sense of loss.

Labels: commercials, life, relationships, sadness