That one great love
As my work colleagues and I wait for our appointment, one recounted how he had this "one great love" decades back.
There was this girl, he told us, whom he followed wherever and professed his love to all the time. But the apple of his eye sadly did not return his feelings, leaving him to weep alone and feel the wrath of having loved and lost.
That love, he said, was so intense he feels as if he could love as much anymore.
And so I wondered if I had had that one great love or If I'm wishing to have such.
Honestly, I don't feel like I've loved that much to call it a great one. I've been in several relationships before, I have loved and lost, I thought I could never love at all but--alas--I did again.
And to call my current one a great one, well, maybe it is or maybe it isn't.
But it is by far the most intense, using my colleague's words, and the greatest yet.
However, I do not wish for it to be my great love, the one I get to tell my friends or my future children about. Simply because I want this one to really last for a very, very long time, so long that I will have none other to compare it with.
I just don't want this to be the great love, but the love that will last for my entire lifetime.
There was this girl, he told us, whom he followed wherever and professed his love to all the time. But the apple of his eye sadly did not return his feelings, leaving him to weep alone and feel the wrath of having loved and lost.
That love, he said, was so intense he feels as if he could love as much anymore.
And so I wondered if I had had that one great love or If I'm wishing to have such.
Honestly, I don't feel like I've loved that much to call it a great one. I've been in several relationships before, I have loved and lost, I thought I could never love at all but--alas--I did again.
And to call my current one a great one, well, maybe it is or maybe it isn't.
But it is by far the most intense, using my colleague's words, and the greatest yet.
However, I do not wish for it to be my great love, the one I get to tell my friends or my future children about. Simply because I want this one to really last for a very, very long time, so long that I will have none other to compare it with.
I just don't want this to be the great love, but the love that will last for my entire lifetime.