Rebound
I’m your rebound, you’re my rebound, we’re rebouncing!
Life is an amazing thing. How one single event can change a lot of issues in the chain-reactions that follow.
Time, timing, timeliness. What I learnt in feature writing and news writing certain taught me something.
Like I said, most people are sadists and derive pleasure from watching others suffer. Gee. In life, we’ll never learnt enough from the mistakes we make alone, hence the issue about learning from people’s mistakes.
How about learning about someone else by trying to read between the lines?
Where are you, my white teddy bear? Mama says I must open my eyes wide when I befriend people.
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It might be all too late when she betrays you, and you suddenly realise that the one you’ve loved has been here with you all this while.
August 3rd, 2005 at 6:39 am
hey gal, I just saw this from my frene’s blog…maybe it might interest u or inspire u or wat………Turn Left, Turn Right…
Wassup with me watching these sappy love stories on TV these few days… watched Turn Left, Turn Right last night, the one with Gigi Leung and Aniki Jin crossing paths with each other hundreds of times but never knew, and yes, they are neighbours, but never knew that too. But I liked it… I mean, to spend 2 hours in front of the telly instead of starting on my paper which’s due the following day is crazy. Yea, I can be quite a sucker for romantic films, with all these ideal settings and plots. It took me a while to get down from the clouds realizing that the ideal only happens on the screen, and search as I might, I could never find it in real life… or could I?
It got me watching a few episodes of Smallville just now. As you already know, I’m quite a sucker for Smallville too. Drawn to it cos I thought I could relate and empathize with Clark Kent. It started a few years ago when I really liked this girl (of course she liked me too) and were really close friends (like Clark and Lana), but we didn’t get together cos I felt it wasn’t right, and that I had ‘better’ things to do. A year later she got together with another guy, which saddened me for a while. Ok, it saddened me for quite long. But I never got to ask her why… So one night I was watching this scene on Smallville where Clark asked Lana why did she chose to be with Whitney (her boyfriend), and she replied, “Because he was there for me when I needed him”. Relating it to myself, I couldn’t be there for my friend cos I had other commitments which I wasn’t prepared to let go, like how Clark needed to save the world everytime he had a date with Lana.
It’s sad when 2 persons who really like each other don’t share their feelings. Or when the guy, for whatever reason only God knows, holds back. So, here we are after 3 seasons of Smallville and here’s a dialogue between Clark and Lana from the episode I saw just now:
C: It wasn’t easy for me to see you with another guy
L: Are you still sure you don’t want to be that guy?
C: Lana…
L: It’s alright Clark… I just wanted to make sure before I tell you this. Although it didn’t work out, Seth (this guy who was going after her) had the courage to be honest with me. It felt good caring for someone and having my feelings return. I want that again…
C: I don’t expect you to wait forever for me…
L: Good, because one of these days someone gonna come along that’s right for me, and I’m gonna want to be with that person. And you’re gonna have to deal with that…
It’s a classic Clark-Lana romance scene… and I always wanted to knock his head cos of his passivity. Hey, here’s someone you like who really cares for you and loves you, and you’re letting it go? The last thing a woman needs is a hesitant man. But then again, we could never really know what goes through his mind as he makes those hard decisions season after season… and now, I think I’m starting to understand.
You can say that you love this girl pretty much. But will you love her enough to give her up? Well, it’s just my view. Ciao.
August 5th, 2005 at 1:24 am
Very insightful, thanks for sharing his blog entry with me. Timing and trust are the two most important things in any given relationship. Feeling the same towards each other won’t have things worked out when the timing is way off.
Will I love someone enough to give him up? That’s the question. =)