The Best Thing in Life

The best thing in life is first love.
No other experience compares.
There is nothing so freeing as first love,
And finding a sweetheart who cares.

The best thing in life is young love.
The tenderness that is expressed.
Dreamers keep searching for young love,
Cause truly, young love is the best.

The best thing in life is new love,
Delightful like fine blooms in spring.
We sometimes are rescued by new love
And new hope a new love can bring.

The best thing in life is old love.
The comfort of two that are one.
And knowing you won’t be forgotten.
You always can turn to someone.

  • Jim Hagarty

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.