Love Story 2007

This is a love story. A true love story but very much unlike any love story.This story goes beyond any other love story you have ever read or hear of.

This love story started not long ago, but long enough to forget all about it. And like many other love stories, it grew out of nothing. Out of thin air. It came when no one expected it but all needed it. It was the most wonderful surprise that all participants could had received. It was the first time that all four understood the meaning of that four letter word that all had longed to hear. It was as if they had been sleeping for their whole lives and all of sudden they had woken up with a huge and firm understanding of what it is to love another person but more importantly, what it is to be loved back.

This love story took them by surprise. It was just like they had heard in movies, in poems and songs. They understood that love came from a single understanding, a single bond, a simple laugh and a soft touch. They finally understood what it was like to see others and just smile all day for no apparent reason. They understood what it meant to want to give others the entire world.

This love story created a new meaning of the word sacrifice. All four understood what it meant to sacrifice any single being of itself for the other three. The others became the most important being in each of their lives that anything they did was mundane. The happinness of the others became an absolute goal and reward. There would never be a big enough obstacle or harm that could stand in the way of one another.

This love story created a beating heart. A beating heart made up of four individuals. Without one person the heart could not beat. It was as if they had found a missing part of themselves they didn't know existed. They couldn't understand how until this very moment they had lived without one another. It was as if when they met, they had all become one single person. 

This love story created unconditional love. There were never enough words or gestures or acts of affection that could begin to describe even the surface of this intense feeling.  However, to them, not much was needed to comprehend that the others felt a giant urge of love and affection towards one another. Where one person started and the other person ended, there was no clear line. The amount of respect and devotion to one another was clearly visible in each of their faces.

This love story is a short love story. It was as if it had all been a tease. And when this love story ended, all four died a little inside. And they have yet to love the same way again. They have looked for one another in other people and  have failed. It's as if they continue to look for what they had already found. And despite various outward appearances, they long for what used to be, for one another, even if just for a short period of time.

This love story is a true love story.

A true, tragic love story.

But in those few intances that they look back and remember, they find that love still alive within them.