(To the "Him" thats reading this. Sorry. I edited it. But the idea is still there :D )
“Do you believe in abstinence until marriage?”
I
took my eyes off my phone, surprised at what I've just heard.
“Uhm. Do you?”
I asked without giving him an answer.
“Not really. But I do believe in abstinence until
finding the “right one”.”
He
replied without second-guessing himself. Haha, sure. Isn’t that what everyone
says.
“You believe in those fairytale love types of
things? True love, soul mates, the missing puzzle?”
I chuckled while doing the “quotation marks” with my fingers.
“Not really, I don’t believe in that love at first
sight crap. But I think I will be able to find that one girl- the girl that I
will spend my entire life with, living lovey dovey-ly.”
“I don’t believe in true love. I mean…In this
society where everyone is tossing love around as if it was a game of basketball.
Does real love even exist anymore? And how are you ever going to know if he/she
is the one. What if that person
exists, but out there on the other side of the world. Are you ever going to
know / find out?”
I
brought out all my questions and uncertainties about love.
“Well, I don’t think love is that magical. Seems
like you are the one that’s living in the fairytale love world.” He chuckled
before continuing. “I think true love is just being with someone that you feel
comfortable and yourself with. Someone that you don’t mind sharing feelings with,
having fun with, and sacrificing things for. Relationships aren’t going to be
lovey dovey 24/7. There will be times where things will get a bit sour. You
know it’s real love when you are willing to sacrifice and willing to accept his
shortcomings.”
I
was shocked at what I just heard. This coming from a teenage boy who was 5
months younger than I was. Heck, he sounded like a professor in the study of
love.
Silence
followed as I tried to come up with an argument. But I couldn’t. Instead of
disagreeing, I took the time to digest what he have just said.
Maybe.
Maybe some-day. Maybe somewhere in the future. I will find that person.
I will
find my little “true love”.
