Romona | Papakura
“What type of love? I’ve got love for my man. I’ve got love for mokopuna, that’s the one, a love for your first grandchild.
Wow, I’ve never, my first love story. Well, if we could I wish we’d had our grandchildren first before you have your children. You know what I mean? But that’s the love I have. The love for my first mokopuna, Skylar is just something unbeatable. Your whole being moves, you’ve gone to a higher level that no one else can touch. Well, that’s to me, that’s what I describe love. She went away as a baby, she came back as a little lady, and it’s still the same. It’s like a connection. As for love for my man, all I can see is his heart. You know, people ask me, what do you see in him? And, I say, his heart. He’s kind. He’s wonderful. He’s got a big heart. People have ups and downs but doesn’t matter, his heart’s still there. That’s all I can say about love.
Right, to feel love is like something is moved in you, and to look at love, it’s your feelings, like another world’s opened to you, and you know you can stay in this world. True love. You know you can stay in this world and it’s always going to happen, be safe, beautiful. It’s really all the nicest things that can happen to a person. That’s what love is, to me. I don’t, you don’t recognise all the negative around. You don’t, because you’re, it’s like I said, it’s that world of love, and I’m really quite happy, in a happy place all the time.
I was born down in Taumarunui National Park, in the snow. We used to go to school in bare feet in the snow. What’s important to me, is memories. Holding onto those memories from childhood, birth, all the way up to an adult, and you look at your memories, and your love is there, and that’s going to be your memory, too. What you have in life, what you’ve brought into life, to live. To me, it is love. If you’ve got love, you’ve got everything.”
