Mr Watters Letter

There are many things in this world worth waiting for. Love, surprises, and rare occasions are among these cherished things that we as humans wait for. Even though I believe Edie made the wrong decision in waiting for Mr. Watters’s letter, somehow by a twist of fate she found her true love while waiting for a false one. The list of things in this world that are worth waiting for is quite a lengthly one, but I have three main things that I feel are at the top of the list. Love is something worth waiting for because finding true unconditional love is worth more than any temporary lust that may cross your path. True love will conquer all and will find its way to you in ways you man not expect. Surprises are also something very exciting and worth …show more content…
Watters’s letter, because she had just met the man a few days earlier. These kinds of romances, the ones that start right after two people meet, are shown only in fairy tales as far as I am aware. Feeling as though you are in love with someone you have only known for a short period of time is not only foolish, but downright ridiculous. Love needs time to blossom and grow. It does not happen overnight or on a whim. Mr. Watters was also quite older than Edie, who was only fifteen at the time. He was already engaged to another woman, but it was quite obvious he was running from her and using his plane rides as a scapegoat to get away from her when she found him. The most outstandingly obvious reason this relationship was doomed to fail was that she did not even know the meaning of intimacy. When confronted by the man’s husband and he woman she worked for, she was asked if she had been intimate with him. She said yes because she believed that merely kissing him was intimate because she had never even kissed a boy before. The woman she lived with informed her that this was not the intimacy to which they were referring. This innocence proves that she was not even ready for the kind of relationship she was wanting to have with Mr.