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July 25, 2005
One That Got Away
There was this girl I met back in the beginning of high school. I remember we went out on a double date on Remembrance Day, which was a few day after my birthday. I had received a huge bottle of Polo cologne and made sure to use half of it that night. I’m still not sure how any of us survived but I think it has to do with the great air and wide space of a movie theatre. She stole my heart right from the start. Her personality was bigger than anything I’d ever encountered in my life and she had the smile of an angel. Needless to say, that encounter led to at least three years of heartache, as all good relationships at that stage should. We drifted apart as time went on but reconnected a few years back. She’s married and has a little girl and is living a life that makes her happy. I just got off the phone with her, actually, which is probably why I’m writing this now. I’m glad she’s married and loving life. I know things wouldn’t have worked between us in the long run. We're different people. But at that age, you don’t have the experience to see the vast scope of human connection. I don’t know that any one person ever can. There are just too many variables. What matters, though, is that even after all these years, we stil have the memories to share. Things were up and down before but now there are just smiles and no heartache. That, in my books, is a relationship worth holding onto.
Posted by CupidsReviews Doug at July 25, 2005 11:48 PM
