People come and
go, even the ones we truly cared about or even those whom we’ve shared the
saddest or happiest point in our lives and there’s nothing left to do but go on
with our life. But there’s this one person,
someone that we can’t truly get over no matter how long it’s been, someone who
will always hold a special place in our hearts that no matter what happens we
can’t get rid of the memories even if it makes us tear up or smile. A person to
whom we go back to in every heartache or happy moment wishing it was them
beside you. Someone known as the one that got away.
Time will pass,
seasons will change and even the people around us will but the one who got away
will always be with us in ways which are beyond our reach. But first, if that
person is so special why didn’t it work or why did he or she become someone who
got away? There are a lot of reasons and what ifs. The list is endless but it
all boils down to one thing, wrong timing. The love shared was a bad case of
wrong timing. Somewhere along the road something went wrong and there was
nothing we could do about it and at that time the best choice possible was made
and that was to let each other go.
Memories are
the last one to go, they stick with us like Velcro. No matter how much effort
we put in to forgetting them they will always find a way to pop up on our
minds. It made us feel happy and complete but at the same time remembering it
now opens up a hole inside us making us wish we could hop back in time and
relive those moments once again but the hard truth is we couldn’t. Memories
will remain memories and nothing could bring them back, not even a science
discovery. It serves as reminder that it is possible for us to feel ecstatic
and at the same time sad. Bittersweet isn’t it? It’s
the way it works. Lesson learned appreciate it while it’s there because you’ll
never know when it will be taken away.
Regrets are the
hardest to deal with. They burn through us endlessly and ignite those sleepless
nights wherein we could not help but think about the things we could’ve done
differently and worse, the things we didn’t do but now we wish we did. We had
our reasons, at that time maybe we were too afraid or maybe because we didn’t
think it would lead somewhere. The thing is regretting wouldn’t make it any
better. It wouldn’t make “the one that got away” come back. It would just open
up another hole in us making us farther from being okay and from accepting the
fact that things didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to.
Choices,
memories, regrets, emotions and the person… The one that got away. There are
reasons why that person didn’t make it in our present. Who knows maybe he or
she will show up while you’re sipping your coffee in your favorite place or even
while you’re reading a news paper? When the time comes that you see each other
again maybe you can greet each other with a smile or a simple hello and maybe
it won’t hurt as much. Maybe some sort of weird feeling will arise, no one
knows. Maybe you’d be totally okay and moved on or you won’t be able to see
each other again. There are a lot of possibilities.
The truth is we
won’t be able to forget the one that got away. We’ll learn from them and love
them in a different way. As the song lyric goes “In another life I would be
your girl, We’d keep all our promises be us against the world. In another life,
I would make you stay so I don’t have to say you were the one that got away”
Perhaps, in another life time your love was perfect and it was meant to be..
But not in this one..
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