Love That Never Was | |
Monalisa Minz |
It was the first year of my college. We were in the same class but he never saw me. One night i was crying by my hostel window missing my friends back at home and this was the first time he saw me. It was like we fell in love.
We kept on looking at each other for a few minutes when a flash of lightning brought us to reality.
The chemistry was beyond our understanding. We had never felt such a strong pull towards each other. but the pull was for sure. slowly the eye locks started increasing and it became a common feature of the campus. our love was budding slowly. and it was something that both of us liked. i thought i was in love.
But reality crashed right in front of me one night. It was a similar night the day when we first saw each other. we were working on the same project. and it was like everything was awesome. But that stormy night was different from the rest. As i entered the common room i heard him talking on the phone. he was speaking to his friend. He said that all that he was having with me was fun and there was no such hassle of love or things like that. it was a short fling.
Within a few moments the earth slipped below my feet and i was numb for a second. the first time in my life i was at loss of words. i did not know where i went wrong. it was just that the guy that i had chosen had never loved me. All this time i thought i was in love but it was a ll a short fling for that person. it was mainly coz he had never loved me. and i thought i was in love with him. for months i kept on trying to figure where i went wrong but all that i got in return were empty answers.
Today i have become strong. i don't cry as usual but the old memories very often hit on the shores of my mind. and in one part of my heart i still love him for he was the first person i ever loved and first love cannot be forgotten soon.
Let me Love You
Once upon a time, there was once a guy who was very much in love with this girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of papercranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small executive in his company, his future doesn't seemed too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told him that she cannot visualise any future for the both of them, so let's go their own ways there and then... heartbroken, the guy agreed.
When he regained his confidence, he worked hard day and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of himself. Finally with all these hardwork and with the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company...
"You never fail until you stop trying." he always told himself. "I must make it in life!"
One rainy day, while this guy was driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination. Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn't take him long to realise those were his ex-girlfriend's parents. With a heart in getting back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury sedan. He wanted them to know that he wasn't the same anymore, he had his own company, car, condo, etc. He had made it in life!
Before the guy can realise, the couple was walking towards a cemetary,and he got out of his car and followed them...and he saw his ex-girlfriend, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone... and he saw his precious papercranes in a bottle placed beside her tomb. Her parents saw him. He walked over and asked them why this had happened. They explained, she did not leave for France at all. She was stricken ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want her illness to be his obstacle ... therefore she had chosen to leave him.
She had wanted her parents to put his papercranes beside her, because, if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him. The guy just wept ...the worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them but knowing you can't have them and will never see them again.
The End."
A tragic story that perhaps happens only in the movies. At the end of the day, money is money is money but love is divine. In our quest for our material wealth, take time to make time for our loved ones. There will be a time when we have only memories to cling to.
Take this weekend to show our "love" to all that are close to us.
