Really quick update today as there are multiple balls being juggled at the moment.
It’s the end of a really long day traipsing the parks. I’m tired and my feet are screaming at me. We sit down at the bus stop waiting for the bus that will transport all the weary people back to their hotels.
Next to me is an older lady, mid 40s, peroxided hair looking extremely weary. Her daughter is with her wearing a Cinderella outfit that she has bought in the park. The daughter looks extremely pretty and I catch the mother’s eye as I smile at the daughter in her outfit. The daughter and mother are French and I do not understand their conversation.
We sit and wait and wait. The daughter gets close to her mother and her mother gives her a gentle hug. Then the mother starts singing, very quietly, so quietly only her daughter and I could hear it. She sings Someday My Prince Will Come from Disney’s SnowWhite and she sings it PERFECTLY. Completely stunning. It really was the most beautiful voice.
And the daughter is looking at her mother as she is singing to her and there is such an expression of love on her face that the mother starts to cry. Singing this song with tears down her face. As her daughter looks at her perfectly. And I start to tear up, as I am tearing up writing this.
The mother finishes singing and realises I witnessed this beautiful moment and we both smile at each other with tears in our eyes.
I have not described this at all well. Certainly not to convey the sheer perfection of the emotion between the mother and child. My apologies. It’s probably one of those had to be there situations.
Life is full of small beautiful moments.
Comparable to the emotion at Ianto’s shrine….sad moment 😦
Whew. There’s an entire film script in the back story of that moment, Nigel. Who were they? What were they doing there? Why did the mother look weary? Where were they from and to where were they going? Why the tears? Were they tears of joy or sorrow? Go on, buddy. Write it!
Wow. I got a little teary just reading that. Well written, sir – you captured it perfectly.