Those were such the beautiful days of pupilhood, no worries about money, no concerns about work duties, just going to school with a backpack and listening lectures from respectable teachers.
She was my classmate, an intelligent learner of literature, somewhat reticent and being timid girl in figure of all people. I did not know why such images had obsessed mind of a 17 year old pupil like me, they were so strong that made me stay up over midnight, covering in blanket with a tiny light, to write the first love letter in life undersigned by a name "the white flamboyant" then sent her in an envelope without name of sender, I knew she had received but unknown about its author.
Until the last days of high school, she finally knew about the foolish lovesick guy who sent her the love letter two years earlier. First love of life began and went through a lot of pure memories that I could not imagine it might live so persistently. Day after day, and future was still something unpredictable, similarly to love, especially the first love. It is believed that first love is always a story never come to a happy end, I would not believe in such saying. But, I did lose her after three years happy together, there were reasons, a lot, but mainly do I think because we were too young, both..
It has gone nearly 20 years, I also fell in love one more time during studenthood before getting married with mother of my daughter now, however, as if something unexplainable, I have not been able to find out the emotion in love like I used to have when falling in at age 17. Someone has ever told me, "first love would be only beautiful if it forever stayed within your memories, should you took it over frontier of marriage, it sometime would become tragedy". I don't know if it is true, but still I'm having a great family at time being.
Who know whether Romeo & Juilete would have been happy or not if they had been alive and become a spouse?
Comments
Thanks Anele, you finally appear! What about your first story?
Thank Yu and Salma.
Salma: are you missing your first lover? :))
I agree, Mr. vvquang .Nothing is absolute. I am very very glad to hear that your parents have been being happy. Give my best wishes to your parents and your family as well.
Thanks, Anizag.
Not ridiculous at all, Ani :). the matter is not at what age you loved, but how happy you were.
Thank Hana & IAV for your comments.
IAV: "Love is only beautiful when unfinished", yes, I agree but there are also a lot of exceptions I think. My parents in laws, for example, have been being happy together until now since their first hello nearly 50 years ago.
Thank you, Liem, for your comment. It's great to hear that you've been being in first love til now. Getting all along with someone from first love is not impossible, I am also aware of many couples have gotten married with their first lovers around. I hope you are happy forever with your beloved til the end of life. Cheers!
What do you think about the word "Love is only beautiful when unfinished". Have you been missing her? Mr. vvquang. For me, life after marriage is responsibilities.