The Look of Love

-I think my parents are getting old and senile.
-I think you're looking at them from a different place.
-What does that have to do with anything?  Things are what they are, like you say.
-Let me tell you a story...

There once was a king who fell in love with a lower class woman named Sabrina.  He transformed her life and made her his queen.
One afternoon the king was out drinking and a messenger arrived to inform the queen that her mother had fallen ill.  She knew it was forbidden to use the king's carriage, the punishment was death, but she got in anyways and rode straight to her mother.
When the king was later informed of the situation he said,
-Isn't it incredible? Love so sincere.  She risked her life.  She didn't hesitate.  She went straight to her mother. Incredible.

The next day Sabrina was picnicking in the palace gardens.  When the king arrived, she greeted him and pulled the last item from her basket, a peach, and offered the king a bite.

-Delicious! he said.
-I know, said the queen, and extending her arm, she gave him the rest.

She loves me so much! the king later commented to his friends.
Denying herself the last delicious peach... wow.

Years passed and the king's love and passion faded.
One night as he was passing time drinking with his friends, he commented, 'She's hardly regal.. can you believe how she stole my carriage, and what kind of queen offers her king a mere bite of some fruit.

Reality is what it is.. but a person may see it one way or the other.

Be wary of your perceptions, as the wise Baldwin said,
We adjust what we see 'to fit' into the reality we find most convenient.
... Don't believe your eyes!