I was checking on mom and a movie was playing that had Bea Arthur in it. I don't think Mom was watching it, she was asleep. I looked it up, and it was "My First Love" and came out in 1988. It was a TV movie on ABC. I did not realize be off there was doing movies in the '80s.. I thought she was focused on the Golden Girls.
She was in her 60s in this movie, born in 1922. I didn't realize she was that much older than my grandparents. She was almost closer in age to my great grandparents. Her co-star was a good looking man, Richard Kiley, who was born the same year as Bea Arthur, in 1922. He died in 1999 and she died in 2009. It's neat and comforting to think they still live through their movies. It's the closest we could ever get to being immortal I suppose.
Watching the short clip and then looking it up reminded me how fleeting life really is. We are here one minute, then gone the next. It also made me think of my first love from so long ago. I reached out to them a few weeks ago but never heard back.
We have spoken off and on through the years and I think about them a lot, depending on what's going on in my life. I sent a message saying that I would love to see them before our time on this planet expired, and got ignored. This is coming from a person (me) that rarely reaches out to meet people. But with them, I always felt we had unresolved business, for a lack of a better word.i don't know, I think of them often and hope they are OK and doing well.
Seeing the clip of this movie really touched me for some reason. I'm going to put it on my watch list... I just hope it's not a sad movie, I have to gear up for those kinds of movies.
