Daydream??

The idea of a soul mate has long baffled me. I recall my fren telling me a story about how when a baby boy is born, God takes out a bone from his body and moulds it into a baby girl. The baby boy and baby girl were destined to spend eternity together. It is undeniably a romantic and fantastical idea.

A part of me wanted to indulge in the surrealism of it all, but I was equally skeptical. I even thought that marriage was nothing but a license to have sex.

It seemed wrong to me that weddings were reduced as such. At the same time I found the boundless passion described in novels by Judith Mac Naught unrealistic. So, I pondered……

For ten years and more. Life threw more and more experiences at me. I grew from a naive little girl to a cynical teenager. My opinion swung like a pendulum. Then, I met him. We were similar and completely different simultaneously. He was my fantasy come reality, yet so real, it seemed like a fantasy. He made me see that being in love was like living a dream and being practical and realistic, all at the same time. I realized that it was a balance. The more I thought about it the more I understood that romance was a combination of dreams and harsh reality.

Love was a delicate balance of Realism and Fantasy. The two perspectives were not such
opposites. They were compliments. Realism versus Fantasy was not to be but Realism and Fantasy became one.

Nothing is certain. If we can accept simple things like the ‘fact’ that we are who we are and we are where we are, then why is the idea as beautiful as someone being born for you to share life with and become one with, so unacceptable?

Since we never know what life is going to throw at us next, my suggestion is to indulge. Let yourself be swept off your feet and let someone make you happy. Love and be loved. I believe in the one. I believe in the story my fren told me. I believe in the co-existence of Fantasy and Reality.


| Lady Gadget Hackwrench C r u i s e d A t 4/15/2005 10:11:00 PM |