Gams

A man notices a picture of a pretty younger woman sitting in a car and instantly becomes intrigued.

The 1980 movie "Somewhere in Time" featured well known actors Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. In the movie, the Reeve character is staying at a hotel when he notices and becomes infatuated with a portrait of a beautiful young woman who is later played by Seymour.

Well, let's be real here. The Reeve character isn't just infatuated with this portrait that hangs in the lobby of the hotel. He's obsessed with it. He asks questions of anyone who will talk to him about this young woman. He researches her life and finds out she dies unhappily years later.

He becomes so involved and OCD about her that he asks physicists and others about the possibility of his time traveling back about 70 years so that he can meet this young woman in person.

Needless to say, he time travels back to 1910, meets her, falls in love with her, (she predictably falls head over heels for him too), and everything works out great until he wakes up weeks later- sadly back in 1980. Back to his normal life, and without his new found love, he becomes deeply depressed and eventually loses his sanity.

The movie puts all of us hopeless romantics out of our misery by showing both characters meeting up again later in some type of heaven like place.

It was a great movie. I saw it with my dad. He and I went to movie theaters about once per month while I was growing up.

Ok. So here is my point. I saw an intriguing picture of a young woman at an exercise app last year. The pic is above. When I was browsing photos of other active, dedicated health nuts, I happened to see this one. I could hardly take my eyes off of it.

In this picture, we see a pretty young woman sitting in a car with a long sleeve blue sweater. She, predictably, has just been walking several miles when it has started to rain on her. The pic captured my attention, and still does.

How in the world can a soaking wet, young woman look so heart stopping? I haven't figured than one out yet.

When commenting on her picture, and then chatting with her I have learned to really like her. She's funny, very honest, direct as hell, hardworking, and simply adorable. (She doesn't like when I call her adorable).

She's also humble, easy to talk to, and unwilling to believe she is beautiful. I'm working on that with her

How on earth can anyone have eyes this perfect?

How can someone caught in rain look this good?

How can someone sitting in a car catch my attention this way? Most people sitting in a car look creepy!

I have had the opportunity to get to know her a little over the past year. We even get into arguments sometimes! At one point, we weren't speaking for months.

When I initially asked her age, (I had assumed about 21), she told me 36. That intrigued me even more.

So, you might be wondering why this write is called Gams. Why do you think? I started wondering right after seeing this mesmerizing picture, "I bet she has great legs!" Well, she does. I never doubted it.

I feel a little like Christopher Reeve in that 1980 movie. I'm not a time traveler, nor have we even met yet, but I at least can understand how a simple photograph can capture and hold a man's attention like an eagle swooping down and grabbing an unsuspecting rabbit.

I'm that rabbit, and it's kind of nice being caught. I hope she doesn't let go.

Reviews

[Bobisnotmyuncle]

You know, love is such a powerful thing, polarizing as well. Love holds but just a short bridge to hatred. As strong as these 2 seem as opposing polar forces, it's almost as if somewhere along the bridge, a wormhole lays to greet the other pole. And as long as one does not tread too far away from love, I believe its this force that makes it so strong. Insanity would be straying too far away from love and getting caught in the wormhole. I enjoyed the story. I thought it was quite beautiful, and it took a turn towards optimism, rather than insanity. Which was nice.

[Ballpark Frank]

Excellent thoughts! I hadn't thought about the insanity part but the Reeve character was nearly comatose when he lost his love. Very sad.

[Susan 🦋]

Well, I am certainly not surprised this picture of this stunning woman caught your eye..not even with the title lol ,,,I can say that BECAUSE this goes so much deeper! I love the fact you have developed into this easy peasy relationship. I suppose it really doesn't matter how you met...a picture, in person or whatever...point being...soulmates always know each other. Nice write Frankie!

[Ballpark Frank]

You are so kind! I wish I could say it worked out but .....

Thanks for your kindness.

[Susan 🦋]

No!..awwwww :(((((

[Ballpark Frank]

She loves herself much more....

[Susan 🦋]

Ahh..yes, there is no room for true love with self- centeredness.

[Ballpark Frank]

......and her clear lack of people skills in general. Lol

[Danny Metcalfe]

When a soul meets their destiny there is no denying it. I like the idea of the story. Nice work!

[Ballpark Frank]

Thank you! I loved writing this. Too bad it never worked out with her.

[barleygirl]

There were a couple times during the description of the Reeve movie when I almost gave up on this story. To be honest, I don't even think you need the Reeve movie reference at all & certainly not dominating your entire opening to the story. You need to trust your own story! This is amazing writing becuz you are so self-aware & so honest about it. There are parts of this story that most people would not want to admit to, becuz of how it might make them look, or becuz other people might think of this narrator as being overly obsessed with this woman's physical presence. I mean, most women would rather be described more in terms of the interesting & multi-layered person that they are, not some picture that some guy is obsessing over. But it's becuz you're so real, so honest, that this whole thing comes across as very interesting. Sometimes guys act very weird online & your vignette gives us an authentic glimpse into what might be happening "behind the scenes" when some online suitor is acting in an inexplicable way. You tell this story with many juicy details about how it felt for you & this is the powerful substance of the story, not the dumb Reeve movie lead-in. Get rid of it! Just my opinion! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Ballpark Frank]

Thank you! I'm glad you read this and left feedback.

I like it as is though.

[America Faarozon]

Well written.i wanto see that movie now.i totally get being very intrigued by a photo of someone. I've had this experience many times. Never heard anyone talk about it wrote about it. Nice work

[Ballpark Frank]

You are awesome for reading and leaving such a thoughtful comment! Thank you kindly.

[America Faarozon]

You're welcome! I just started my writer's cafe acct yesterday. I write in all kinds of style and genres. I'm in the process of transcribing all my writing work from my notebooks. I posted four things yesterday. Much much more to come. Excited to share years worth of frantic scribbling with the masses....or atleast someone other than my cat. Cause she died and now I have NO ONE talk to....boohooboo lol...I'm not a crazy I just play one on tv

[Samuel Dickens]

Words of someone who is in love with love. I'm the same, so the story held my interest. I like the idea of living your own version of a movie. Nice work, well written.

[Ballpark Frank]

Sam, you probably have no idea of what that review means to me. Thank you from my heart