Photo prompt: © Jeff Arnold
She always saw the half-full of the cup. He always saw the empty.
She saw the rain’s potential. The green to manifest. The flowers. He saw mud and wet and ruinous showers.
She saw the sun and warmth. He saw the cancer.
She pointed out the good. He, the plausible con-men in every alley.
She laughed. He frowned.
She hugged babies and puppies, while he kept both at warning distance.
“We’re like the rainbow,” she explained, when others wondered how she kept sane in the face of constant pessimism. “Our perspectives of mist and light blend a full spectrum’s beauty.”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Na'ama Yehuda 
It’s true. Very different people can complement each other
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Yep. I’ve seen it with my own eyes … and sometimes wondered, but what works, works! 🙂
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Lovely, just lovely. 💚✨💚
Adele Ryan McDowell, Ph.D.
AdeleRyanMcDowell.com Adeleandthepenguin.com MakingPeacewithSuicide.com Channeledgrace.com
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Thank you, dear Adele! I hope you are keeping well! xoxo
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This made me grin.
And thank you for not writing about …
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You’re welcome … I figured we have enough of that … 😉
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What works works, nicely told.
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Thank you, Michael! Indeed, what works, works, and I’m happy if this worked … 😉
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In theory it can and sometimes does work. Love is an inexact art for sure.
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Perfectly stated! 🙂
Yep.
Indeed!
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🙂
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🙂
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Opposites attract 🙂
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Sometimes they sure do! 🙂
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Na’ama Y’karah,
I admire her her positive outlook. It can wear thin under those circumstances. Lovely use of the prompt. No…you know…thank you. 😀
חג פסח שמח
רחל
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Yeah, it can wear thin and perhaps he balances her out and mellows out what could become chaffing ebullience …
Am very glad you liked this … and … yeah, we have enough of … you know. … 😉
פסח טוב! נעמה
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Well said. Overly optimistic can be just as bad as overly pessimistic.
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Sometimes, yes … balance is good … 😉
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I like your perspective of blended beauty.
Tracey
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Thank you, Tracy. We’re all a bit of a blend, aren’t we? And … it is good to balance things out a bit …
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It’s especially good while we are trapped together in quarantine. Ha ha
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Yep. All the better to ‘blend in’ a bit while in quarantine … 😉
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Yes! Sometimes we look at couples and scratch our head thinking, how the heck did that happen? And if they meet in the middle, then, yes, each end is good to have.
Lovely write.
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I know! I have a couple of friends where I’m still scratching my head … and yet … while some did not last in togetherness, there are those couples that prolonged head-scratching did not separate … and it is obviously working. Good for them! 🙂
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Absolutely good for them!
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Totally!
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Chag Sameach, Na’ama. Dafna
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Chag Sameach, Dafna! Or at the very least, a healthy one. Toda! Na’ama
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That is so beautifully put, much nicer than the nursery rhyme (Jack Sprat would eat no fat, his wife would eat no lean, and so between the both of them they licked the platter clean) 🙂
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Yeah, well … to be fair, it is not hard to rise above nursery rhymes … where cribs fall off of tree limbs (who put the crib there to begin with, I wanna know!!!), and other Jacks splat their noggin down the hill and so on … 😉
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And all of which began with early newsheets and cartoonists and only latterly descended (ort ascended) to the nursery 🙂
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Yeah … 🙂
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Wow! I love the thought behind this one. This is so beautifully done :).
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I’m glad you liked it! 🙂 Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment! 🙂
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Opposites do attract but dealing with that sort of pessimism would be tiresome
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Yes, it would be to most of us, wouldn’t it? But it seems that for this particular duo, it works. And who am I to tell them not? … 😉 (if she keeps him, there’s less tiresome for us to deal with …) 😉
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Nice story Na’ama. I confess, though, that I wonder how the man would have described their marriage…Polarised light with two crossed filters do you think? I’ll go with the woman’s view every time!
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Yeah, I don’t know how he’d describe it. Perhaps he’d say that she’s an “unrealistic Pollyanna” but … he does stay with her, so she must be a step above the humdrum awfulness of his life … 😉
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I love this! The two opposite ends combine to make something beautiful. Sort of like my Henri & Sophie from the story I wrote, though yours is much better penned! =)
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Yes, there are those polar opposite couples sometimes, for sure! I would not put a qualifier on the level of pen-woman-ship, though … 😉 I loved your little story. And Henri is a keeper besides. 🙂 (hey, maybe they are them!) 😉
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I like that. Our stories merge. =)
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You never know … 😉
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Hoo boy! Could I identify with this one! And it’s true– we fill in each other’s empty places 🙂
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LOL, I love this description! Here’s to filling in each other’s empty places! 🙂
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the yin and yang in a relationship. it takes two to make it work.
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It sure does! Sometimes seeming more miraculous than others … 😉
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It sounds as though it works for them. Nicely done.
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Thanks, Sandra. It sounds like it does, doesn’t it? Good for them … 🙂
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They must be quite the couple 🙂
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I bet they are … 😉
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And I know several couples like this, who from the outside seem such opposites, yet somehow make things work. Well observed and written
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Thanks, Lynn! I think a lot of us know someone who is in such a couple. Fascinating, to me! And yet, it obviously can work!
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Or at least for a while!
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🙂 and in some cases … a LONG while … 🙂
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