The Story Behind Her

People talk a lot about love. They talk a lot about people involved in love. They tell stories about love of other people or about fairy tales like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. But they don't realize, they, too, are living their own stories. Some people prefer to keep their real life's love stories secret. Why? Maybe because they've lost their battle and they feel hatred for losing their loved one. But that's not actually what love is all about. Love is when you feel no remorse, no resentment, and no hatred. Love is when you feel satisfaction, contentment, and total happiness even if you surrendered everything. I'll tell you something about my story. Although it's not much like totally true love but somehow there was this spark that made me think of someone in my past and of my future. I don't know if the story has come to an end for all I know is that future truly surprises a girl a lot.
The girl was still a child. She was innocent to the unknown world of love when she unexpectedly fell in love with a boy that was impossible for her to reach. He was four years older than her. The girls' friends were teasing her whenever he comes around. That's why he sensed something unusual with this girl.
The boy was strict when it comes to school rules and regulations. One was to avoid wearing bullcaps inside the school's premises. Once on a hot afternoon, the girl can't help it but she wore a cap. When the boy passed by, he stopped and told the girl to take off her cap. She took it off immediately and realized it was the first encounter with him. Instead of humiliation, she felt joy.
The day of Graduation came. Both of them were to start with the new chapters of their lives at separate ways. The boy was to enter college life which means he's broadening his horizons at a different school, leaving her behind.
For all the girl knew, she has discovered a lot of things. She was broadening her horizons. She was encountering and meeting different people that have put a mark on her life. She has been experiencing puppy loves with other boys, fun and mischievous moments with her friends and her own self-discovery. She had learned to forget about childish things that would let her remember of him.
She was starting to realize that her childish dreams were the products of her own young imaginations. Until one day, the boy suddenly came back and visited the school. She wasn't prepared for that. She quickly asked for her friends to go home early. She was about to go out of the school gate when somebody called out her name and said, "Wait!" She was electrified with the voice that rung her ears. She slowly turned out to see who called her. It was him. And she was in shock.
He asked about someone she knew. But she couldn't make out the words for she can't believe she was conversing with him. He asked again if she knew about this someone. She composed herself and replied him with a smile. Yes. She knew that person he was asking about, he was asking about a friend. And he bade her goodbye.
The girl couldn't make up with what just happened. All she felt was the sudden flowing back of her feelings and emotions back when she was still a child who knew nothing about love.
She couldn't stop thinking about him for it was the very first time they talked.
Not until then, she learned that the boy and her friend that he was asking about was having a mutual relationship. That was something that she have not expected to happen. She felt a stab of jealousy and pain.
Despite of her silent suffering, something had happened. She and the boy were creating a friendship through the technological mean of communicating, texting. There, the girl felt like he's closer to her and felt like he was talking to her. There, she learned a lot about things that she thought she wouldn't know about him.
Their immediate bonding over the phone lines had put on a song that the girl would always remember. It was when they coincidentally listening on the same radio station, playing the song, "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden., and he dedicated it to her, not knowing that the song would always be in the girl's heart.
After a period of time, they stopped texting. She learned that they broke up, not knowing the reason. Instead of feeling relief and joy for the break up, she felt sad for she knew that her friend and the boy were good for each other.
Another magic moment occured to the girl's life. It was a birthday party of a friend when they unexpectedly crossed their paths again. She was astonished for it was yet another conversation with him. They've talked and chatted for awhile. She was still in high school and he was in college. Both have totally different worlds. For the whole time, her heart was beating rapidly. After the party, they've parted ways again, not sure for when they would meet again. But one thing the girl couldn't forget was the boy's gaze when she looked deep down into his brown eyes while talking. She would cherish it forever.
Her life moved on with different experiences with other people, not with him. At times, the boy would visit the school especially on occasions. But both are until furtive glances and smiles. The girl wouldn't dare to say "Hi!" or get close to him. But, whenever she has to, she would greet him anyway.
They are living their lives now separate from each other but surprises are along the way to the future. Destiny is deciding their fate but no one knows what and how. That's why I said this story has no ending. It may end with a dot or a period but the two people in the story have lives to lead. They may not have had a relationship with each other but both of them were surrounded with love. Both of them were capable of loving. Their story would always continue where future may bring them.
Same as yours.
Are you living your story to the fullest?