A friend called me and he was in the state of venting. I sit there and listened as he tells his story about his recent break up…  or was it a breather or so how he calls it. He is a laid back kinda guy who enjoys the best things in life. Living his life to the fullest and having his so-called fun. A typical normal bachelor. Nothing so surprising. Until today. As I listen to his moment, I figure… are all men like him are like this for real? Tough nuts on the outside, but a soft cookie deep inside. It turns out that his ‘steady’ girl-friend has dropped the bomb. She is leaving him. After the many times of cool-offs and breathers that they have been to, which he would usually initiate, for the first time in many years of their being a couple, this time it was her. And it seems, he really got hurt.

I was tempted to say ‘it finally hits you!’ but rather shut my tacky lips for he is a dear friend and this is his moment. I should give him the benefit of the doubt (I would maybe save that line for later). Listening to him, I can feel a genuine hurt. Somehow it came to me, was there a one that got away from me… or had I been someone’s who got away from him? Maybe, maybe not. However it is, what is more important is that we come to our senses at one point in our lives to realize the importance of another and how to carry a relationship with  utmost care. Many of us take this so lightly just because we know they will surely be there when we come home everyday. Be on our sides on our waking times. But has it occurred to you that maybe they might not be there again one morning?  Then what happens? Time for your world to crumble?

Taking the littlest things for granted are sometimes the biggest mistake one would ever make. Soon enough, you are just left with hopes that maybe, just maybe… she would just come back.

~Shaz