True Love and Betty White

Sometimes, i wonder about true love. Not because i think i haven't really found it, but because nowadays, there doesn't seem a whole lot of truth to the notion. I know this sounds weird for a newly married woman, but hear me out for a second. I have the same fears as everyone else - with so many marriages ending in divorce, and so many broken relationships all around us, its hard not to. Even when you think things are solid - it could be that they're not. That's the risk you take.




So i was thinking about true love, that special sort of love that stands the test of time, and i happened across a program called In the Actors Studio. The show has a different actor on every week, and the host will take them through their life and achievements in front of an audience of students studying to be actors themselves. This week, the actor was Betty White.




I'm not sure how much you know about Betty White. These days, the name is synonymous with The Golden Girls, or The Proposal, or that Superbowl ad where she's playing like a granny on the field 'till she takes a bite of Snickers. But actually, she had a very long, very illustrious career in television, way before the Golden Girls ever was. And although she'd been married before, it was through television that she met her husband Allen Ludden. They were together 18 years before he died - the love of her life, she's said. After he passed, she never remarried.





So I'm watching In the Actors Studio with Betty White, and the host's last questions to her is "If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say to you when you arrive at the pearly gates?"




Without missing a beat, she answers, "Come on in Betty, here's Allen."




I'd be lying if i said i didn't get a little teary. Because THAT'S the point. It's real. It exists. And when you're lucky enough to find it (like i have been), you really do carry it in your heart forever.