Accidentally In Love
Monday, December 05, 2011
Einstein said “How on earth are you going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
I was such a bitter damsel in so damn distress, irrationally waiting for some knight in shining armor to save me from the curse of misery. Nobody came, and the bitterness grew until my hopeless romanticism would wither and die in sorrow. Then I became a believer of love as a great faux made up by those foolish people who can’t well define their insanity. I thought there would never be such intangible force that could make people do the wildest things and speak the craziest words. Only the central magnetic field could possibly make everyone fall to the center of the earth; falling for another person is rather hilarious.
One day, I met Karen; she just gone through a very disheartening process of trying to forget one great love that turned into a very tragic ending. She had recently finished her cardiology fellowship but there was just an impossible way she could diagnose and treat her own broken heart. She was already only five months to walk down the isle, but the lies came out, her fiancé’s skeletons in the closet went out. He once slept with a friend and was expecting a baby, not with Karen. Karen took three months leave to mend and bring back her optimism to continue practicing her profession.
Being both bitter as bitter melons, Karen and I clicked and cursed the whole male species for causing wreck into our dreams of prince charming and happy ending. Dark clouds were always present in our daily routines, seemed like the world would rain down on us ill-fated dealings. We’d both eat up until we bloated, caring nothing about our caloric intake. We were surrounded by depressed families and their dying loved ones; and everyday we feel a little gloomier than the days that passed. We were rather pursued by unattractive looking guys with equally unattractive personalities fitted to be thrown to a trash bin. Jerks, egocentric men who feel so confident we’d swoon over his self-proclaimed charm. Too much drama is just not our type.
Unexpectedly, as Karen tried to belong to her social world again by surfing through her social networking site called facebook; a strange friend request with a similarly weird message appeared on her notifications. The friend request came from a Franklin Nel, an engineer from Dubai. The name sounded familiar so she took the chance of opening his profile. The guy looked cute and charming; she felt a little bit of strange heartbeat. Franklin looked more like her childhood sweetheart. She accepted the friend request and then the online courtship followed. For a little more than three months, Karen announced she was getting married by the end of the year, and it was October. I asked her if she was sure, maybe she got a little overwhelmed by the lover boy from across the miles, or was she desperate to marry coz she’s almost thirty. Karen said, she’s sure about her decision, she doesn’t care about our opinions, they decided to tie the knot, and it was true love, fate decided for them, destiny and all that crap. I just wish the best for them. Maybe it was true love after all, I don’t know.
I also have this funny story of how my friends Leah and Kevin became a couple. He had a crush on her; she once commented he looked kinda cute. They both were in separate relationships and when they had recently broken up from their past lovers, they unpredictably were group mates, had all the sleepovers to finish the thesis, started to get along, to have something like a world of their own. Newsflash, they became a couple in no time. They said they just clicked and that was it. No courtship happened, and they just regarded that one videoke night with the whole class as their anniversary, just to make things official and end the buzz along the campus; and maybe just to tag their romantic relationship. I thought they’d only last for three months, but they’re still happy as they can be and would be celebrating their fifth year together next month.
And since I couldn’t figure out what exactly happened to Karen and Franklin, Leah and Kevin; they all seemed happy together and are very much in love as they all claimed. I don’t know. Shall I change my beliefs now? Is fast and true love really possible? Can you really tell if it’s love, and not another form of lunacy? Damn love, it strikes and takes your heart off guard. Keep falling.
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