Hey guys, I found this
story from the person it happened to so I felt like sharing it. I titled it:
A LOVE STORY AT ITS END…A
TRUE LIFE STORY
When about a decade ago
they met. It was like a brewing fire and a boiling affection. The two were
almost inseparable. They loved each other. Their young hearts having found an
indulgence in the other. Let me tell you what their first meeting was like.
It was at an
examination centre after the day’s paper. The stream of youths who were writing
the same exam flocked to the gate of the school used for the examination
centre. The school was named after a big church in a state capital. All were
going home to prepare for the next day’s examination. Some were looking sad and
some indifferent. Some were being picked by cars owned either their parents or
friends or even boyfriends. There was dust in the atmosphere, a rising smoke of
dust raised by the rain of footsteps exodusing towards the school gate. Some
walked alone by choice, intentionally shunning the waves of friendship from
co-examinees. Some walked alone because they could not get a company, a worthy
or even a manageable company in the sea of colleagues. Some walked alone
because they were not the very attractive type. They were cool, not ugly but
not every man’s first choice…at least that was the general perspective. She
belonged to that company. There were others who walked in the company that they
have found in the exam centre, people who seemed to have found a common ground
of discussion and a need to share. There was the other group who walked in the
company of friends that they had before the exam and were fortunate to have
posted to the same centre. He belonged to this group. So in the midst of this
cluster of categories they met. Let me show you how.
After
the day’s paper, he was walking to the gate with his two best friends in the
world. (Having won awards in that regards with one of them). Suddenly, his eye
caught her. She was standing, not so beautiful, the typical nerd in her glasses
and a striped jean trouser and top. She did appear slightly busty but not too
much. Dark in complexion and standing somewhat alone with her handbag. He
wanted to look away but could not. The reason, he will never get to know.
Although he was a shy type, the fidgety type when it comes to approaching the
opposite sex, he seems to have found the strength to approach her. After taking
a brief excuse from his friends, he took very fast steps to where she was
standing as if in a hurry not to lose the boldness he has. As he talked with her
and asked for her name, she was pleasant towards him and immediately they
kicked off a long discussion as if it has been a long time since they met. He
walked her towards her home with his friends tagging along, the opposite
direction of his and his friends’ place. He had a lighter shade to his
complexion and many regard him as handsome. He wore a round neck shirt and a
baggy trouser with a black sandal. They talked and did not want to leave each
other but he was mindful of the day that was fast turning dark or he will have
to answer questions on what took him so long to get home after his paper for
the day.
The
next day, the two of them were hardly separable during the breaks and at the
end of the day’s paper. They knew they were in love and he asked her out. She
after stalling a little bit agreed to date him. That was how they started out.
His
friends got to meet her and she was ever admitted into the circle. However,
Mother Nature was looking at the two lovebirds. After the exams, they kept on
meeting regularly. They will go to the cybercafé together and even on one of
their long strolls, she misplaced her eye glasses. He got to know her Dad’s
shop and she his Mum’s and those two places became their rendezvous for talks
ranging from their desire for admission, what is happening with them and their
love for each other. Until Mother Nature struck…
He
got an admission into a higher institution of learning but she could not. She
was almost in the same school but it happened that she just could not come. In
a world where there was no mobile phone or a means of communication that was
efficient, their communication bond snapped. And snapped it was, never to be
mended again.
Two
years after he gained his admission, he just could not get in contact with her
anymore. They lost contacts and became students at different schools of life.
Occasionally when they meet, they feel the spark of that affection that they
both had once again but always after a month or two it goes back to the normal.
It is not like there was no longer any love between them, but the waves after
waves of events and life experiences pushed it deeper and deeper under and
farther and farther yonder…the two of them, whose names started with the same
alphabet. Until one day, they met again. This time at home and she said she was
coming back to his school. This time he was already through, just rounding off
the needed result checks before leaving for his national youth service
exercise.
She
drank from a different breast of Mother Nature from him so they were ever apart
in thoughts and dispositions. He sees her as an ‘experienced’ lady but one who
still has a sure place in his heart. She sees him as a cool rigid guy who is
decent and ‘holy’. And because she feels her life was too dirty to be shared
with him or that he will never understand, she shut her world totally from him.
On the contrary, he was an ideal guy quite alright but not the unrealistic,
holier than thou picture she has. In fact he had travelled the same waters as
her on a number of occasions and as a result does not judge her. While she try
to cover her life, his own experience made it easy to lay bare that which she
tries to hide and most vigorously lie about. Although he knew her life, he was
ever hurt when one day her confidants started making a public topic of her
issue in her absence. Things she thought she wanted to hide from him were laid
bare and subjected to public opinion unknown to her by those who give her the
advice she follows. They advice him continually to look away from her as he was
too decent for a person like her and the family she came from. He would smile
and leave them and was determined not to let anything change the fact that he
loved her.
On
the other side, she had a picture, a picture of the ideal man she wanted. She
does think she loves him but he does not really look like the happening version
that tickles her fancy. She felt that she cannot just open up her life to this
guy. Who knows what he will do?! She thinks on many occasions. Even when he
comes to her with questions he already had answers to unknown to her, she felt
that hiding the absolute truth will be the best bet.
As
a result of these, they were ever unstable like a Christmas light. Blinking and
ever blinking. However, whenever they are with each other, their present love
fire removes the roof and even ‘fries the cookies’ but once they are away by a
few miles, the gulf in communication between them rears its head. It is not
like she was a totally indecent lady and he the pure guy, but the two could not
just find that bridge to talk with each other. They identified this and agreed
to work on it. Whenever they are together, while he finds it easy to talk with
her she just cannot bring herself to talk with him. Before he can get a little
information from her, he has to probably read and understudy her. He had to
study and guess before he could get to effectively give her the needs that she
wanted as she could not bring herself to say them to the guy but finds it very
easy and even enjoyable telling outsiders who may anyways make it a public
discourse in her absence.
Frustrated
about how things are, his hold on her gave way. Although his affection for her
was like a gourd which when broken still had the ability to hold water. He
would not give up and wanted to do his best to hold on to her. He is through
with school now, have done postgraduate studies and is a head at a private
firm. She too, in her youth service year at the moment felt like there are
options around her. After meeting him, every other person she tried to give her
affection to were always the wrong choice as they were either married, about
to, or even not interested in such with her and even though he tried to prove
different, she just would not see it. She seemed to be in a hurry or maybe a
journey for something or to somewhere only her knows. She then started devising
means to chase the guy away. After about a decade of not giving up, she just
wanted him out of the way. Hostilities, lies and cruel handlings were the
version of affection he daily feasted on from her table. He knew her plans but
chose to behave like he did not. He believed in discussions but it will always
be one-sided and until long drillings, either romantic, persuasive and forceful
are employed, she will never say a little bit of it all. He knows she wanted
him away and confronted her. She denied vigorously. But plans after plans are
churned out to just make him say bye bye.
He
did tell her to go on one occasion, being tired of wrestling her for her love
and attention. She wanted him back. She just could not believe it and he
considered her again. It was not as if he never loved her. But she just kind of
came back to the old her. It is just like she had found someone else or some
people else somewhere who appealed to her heart more than him. So this time she
is determined to leave him and does not mind if it hurts him to death. She
chose a way, a means that will paralyze the guy and she carried out.
However,
he knew all along what her plans were and what she is doing is to him like just
another movie. He chose to play along in the bid to have a good laugh at the
end of it all. He is not devoid of all affections for her but he knows that
their love story have reached its end and now they are writing a different one…
To me it is enough reason to face each day with optimism. The progress might not have been too pronounced but you sure are not where you used to be. Do you know that all you need to make it in life is you...and of course God. Most of it rests on you though. God has done His part, you just need to wake up to the wonderful secrets He has placed around you and within you. No one can stop you except God and you and He is not interested in stopping you at all. So brace up and win in this game called life. Yeah, imagine you are faced with a puzzle in a game and everything is arranged to make it not so easy to solve but you are expected to solve it. The puzzle is only hard not impossible. So is life, it may be hard, but it is not impossible. So wake up and win as the puzzle may be around so hard but within you lies the answer to solve them all...
So even though the flowers are dying around, there is an ever fresh source of bouquet within; if the clouds above are darkening, there is an ever brightening ray of hope from within; and even though living is impossible for many, you have breath in your nostrils.
