When she was a young girl, she
grew up watching movies where the girl meets the guy on a random place like a
coffee shop, a quiet bar, or while walking on the street going to school.
On her teenage years, she
fantasized about these movies she used to watch. Being young and naïve, she
ought to herself that this will be her love story.
Fantasy 1:
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She is very sure she’ll meet her
first boyfriend while having her usual coffee on Starbucks. That a guy will walk
up to her and say something like ‘Hey, I like that you put so much vanilla on
your frappe. Can I borrow the vanilla?’ with a very charming smile on his lips.
So she spent her days on coffee
shops and waited for a guy to approach her. After a lot of frappe and fats, she
gave up. Guys in reality will never do that. She realized coffee shop guys are
either already in a relationship or gay. If not, she must’ve hanged out on a
wrong coffee shop.
Fantasy 2:
(Spectacular Now)
She gave up the thought of coffee
shops. Instead, she tried hanging out at bars. After school, she went out on
every bar on their block with her friends. She tried to have eye contacts and
that one-bottle policy with beers (just to keep her sane and not do anything
drunkenly stupid).
Alas again, no guy ever spoke to
her the way she fantasized. Well, there were couple of guys who spoke to her
but there was no spark that she hopes she’d feel. Guys who approached her tend
to do it fast or rather shallow.
Fantasy 3:
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tumblr)
The last on her young make-believe
love story, she tried walking on sidewalks for weeks hoping to bump with the
guy that will make her believe that movie love story that she grew up watching
is real.
But after so much sweat and
blisters on her feet, she gave. She knew at some point, no boyfriend material
will accidentally bump to her on the street. She might just be risking her
safety on the streets.
Reality 1:
The truth is, she already found her
fantasies on every scenario she thought on her mind.
She already found the guy in the
coffee shop because her nicest guy friend whom she met through an online
website is the guy who loves to take her to the coffee shop and just stare at
her for hours because he was too shy to talk to her. He is nice, sweet and a
gentleman in his own ways.
He’d sneak and find time for her
even though they were miles apart.
She just didn’t notice.
Reality 2:
(How I Met Your Mother scene)
The guy in the bar? She didn’t
really meet him exactly at a bar. But she met him over beers.
He is the deepest guy she knew.
She’d adore his choice of words when he speaks. The way he tries to make her
notice him is by not noticing her which is messed up cool.
They hang out over beers for
hours until the wee hours of the night. She sneaks with her parents just to be
with this guy.
Yet she didn’t realize this guy, is the guy she was hoping to meet at the bar.
Reality 3?
No there wasn’t any third
reality. Sorry for expecting.
Moral of the story? Fantasies and
make beliefs are okay. But you have to step out of it and face reality. Because
you might never know reality already hit you hard you’ll end up not catching it
and just bruising yourself. The bruise? Well that will be a scar that might
stay on you forever. You’ll end up remembering it every day when you face the
mirror and see the scar.
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