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Melissa's rambling --Episode 1 on love
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----Well, there should be a time that I get some pieces of ideas, instead of putting and editing them into a complete thought or opinion, now and then I'd expose these "quarters of the elephant" as Banville has once described his books in an interview.
(To update friends here, I went to Europe in September to get a Master degree in Leuven, which happens to be the oldest university in Europe, and indeed has lived up for its fame in that way.-:p )
Christmas is all around, what miracles can't happen?
My roomate came back from her Lady's Night party joined by her female classmates with some very touching love stories, and we had a wonderful chat over this topic. Love is love, it can be bittersweet though, it's worth you doing whatever you can or can not to perform the act of it and to fulfill the idea of it.
I'll briefly elaborate the story again. Being an Islamic Turkish girl, when she was still little she had a choice of wearing veil or not for the rest of her life. Regardless of the persuasion from her family, and even her powerful dad, she sticked to the idea of wearing it, leaving her real phsical appearance only for her future husband. It did sound outrageous and moreover she happened to be a girl who liked to make herself looking prettier, yet this beauty wouldn't be seen by the boys hovering around her everyday in her middle school years.
There's only one EXCEPTION. The first impression she had sensed her future husband to be was merely of a bright ray of light, and at that time she couldn't even open her eyes bearing the idea of questing the answer from God that if the one standing in front of her was actually a living human being. She was baffled and slightly opened her eyes, and there he was, smiling right back, glowing with opulent sunshine behind him, and subtly, the bud of love has buried in her(their) heart(s).
Then she found out that boy was the icon of entire school. He's the top one while she barely could squeeze herself into top 100, and there's the distance between them. The silence and untouchable sentiments annoyed her a great extent, while eyes become the mouth to utter semantic meanings. It's truly as the Chinese singer Chen Sheng has once sighed with emotion: "There are words merely heard by those who pursue the same dream."
Rumors arose. Gossip worked everywhere, from glamorous Hollywood celeberity life to common Turkish middle school students' fantasy. They were caught eye contacting or passing the signal of love, from some sharp- eyed gossipers. After hearing this, the girl couldn't hold the ambiguous relationship between them and decided to write the boy an email, then she sent one with her confession of asking for his answer. He didn't reply the next few days. The girl struggled with expectations and depression and checked her email account every single day. Then fianlly the answer email had arrived. The title grieved her.---I'm sorry!.
Could that be the answer of declining their relationship?... She kept on reading. " I'm sorry that you're so beautiful. I'm sorry that you've got so many boy admirers, and I'm sorry that I'm not good enough for you... " This email sealed their relationship and the boy definitely proved his ability not only in Physics or Chemistry, but also in expressing the feeling of love. Yes, the only thing that has ever matterd to them all these years.
Surely lots more had happened later on account of their subtle love which they had accomplished by eye contacting in the hall, or chocolate gifts with secret code words, by the whole time she was still wearing that veil so that her face had never been seen by her boy. She kept the secret well. Two days before their marriage, and here's the interlude, they went to different universities and had a long distance relationship for three years and survived. Back to the day that the boy finally got the chance to see the face and figure of the girl. He's astonished to find such a beauty. He was speechless, and by thinking of the rest of his life that this pure beauty will only be left for him, just for him, he couldn't help laughing out loud, staring at his bride. He was the happinest husband of the world.
Now he refuses to have babies with her even though she told him she's ready to be a mum. He replied that he doesn't want to share her love with someone else, someone who's cuter and less agressive, and who needs her care and attention almost all the time, I wonder how selfishness has ever manifested in a better way.
So far so good, their love story indeed goes along like a fairy tale and maybe only in those religous countries can love be worked out in such an innocent and pure way. It reminds me of one of our latest blockbusters directed by Zhang Yimou named the Hawthorn love, which has been boasted the purest love of all. Comparison makes people shameful about their works.
I am not stating that the movie's not a good one, yet I simply think that it doesn't deserve these busswords. Purest lies! Living in a materialistic world like the nowadays China, one won't even be able to have that pair of pure eyes to appreicate the love in its purest form. Let alone to perform an art work. I might have generalised and exaggerated, but the truth is truth. Adolescent boys and girls have been living another life compared to what I had back in the late 90s.
Real life is always better than what we read from novels, and it's because we have utmost experinces of it. Being so close to such a story trembles me, and I feel the urge to dish it out otherwise I am afraid that I will never encounter it again. Wait, reflecting upon my own love story, ah, doesn't that take ten times more words to be told?
Rambling is just rambling, and will never be something significant from its pile of ordinariness, but I'll leave the judgement to you, my ultimate readers, friends on this website, with perhaps a thousand possible interpretations to grasp from what I've chattered today.
Peace, and good night.
Melissa, closing up her favourite day and getting ready to dream of her haihai.
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Post comment Comment (31 replies)
- Reply simon1118
- Excellent, haven't read it over, tomorrow will continue. BTW, is whole store real or you make it up?
- Reply catnfish
- Joey1: an extraordinary long story .oh ,ur english is of superexcellence .Didn't intend to make it that long, but it seems that the story deserves some words. Truly this is a real romance that I've heard and I want to share with all of u:)
- Reply catnfish
- simon1118: Excellent, haven't read it over, tomorrow will continue. BTW, is whole store real or you make it up?It's real. Starting from the moment my roomate seeing her Turkish classmate's exceptional beaty that she usually hides in her class. And then everyone's so interested in hearing her love story.:p
- Reply empty~empty
- I did the same thing as simon1118.
,anyway happy to read so long essay from you .
- Reply catnfish
- empty~empty: I did the same thing as simon1118.My ones are going long sometimes....:P There's a lot more than what I have said behind this story though. Thanks for being appreicate this journal lovely, have a great day there:),anyway happy to read so long essay from you .
- Reply bluephoebe
- Puppy love lasted forever, at least i hope so, what a story! i am deeply moved. just as you said, such pure love can hardly be found in China( not only in china, but also in this everything-for-trade up world, i think). thanks for sharing. glad to know once-given-is-forever love exists besides the movie and the books.
- Reply simon1118
- Read it from the begining, now I have a outline of this story, but I feel there is something I've missed, how did they get married after the I'm sorry email, I think this would hook the whole story up, maybe you will tell us next time.
- Reply catnfish
- bluephoebe: Puppy love lasted forever, at least i hope so, what a story! i am deeply moved. just as you said, such pure love can hardly be found in China( not onlThank you too!^^you understand how I feel about this story~Have a great night there~ Ps: your son's a cute one!~haha
- Reply catnfish
- simon1118: Read it from the begining, now I have a outline of this story, but I feel there is something I've missed, how did they get married after the I'm sorryThey'd made sure that they're boyfriend and girlfriend and they're in a relationship. Then they got married after graduation from University in which period they were basically seperated. Then they got married:) Does that explain your question? ha.. Yea, Next time I'll have a lot more other stuff to tell you:p
- Reply woods
- The love essay is so romantic,And the literacy is just so splendid,I love it.Good to have you back.Melissa.
You have been to Europe in this fall?- Reply catnfish
- woods: The love essay is so romantic,And the literacy is just so splendid,I love it.Good to have you back.Melissa.haha ,we should hear something incredibly amazing like this story at the end of this year, after all new year's coming, we need something to expect in the up coming 2011:)
- Reply Fionahere
- I really enjoy reading your essay no matter it's your random thoughts or a touching story like this. I look forward to reading more things from you here and know more your life on the other side of the world. Wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year~~~Miss you
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- Reply catnfish
- Fionahere: I really enjoy reading your essay no matter it's your random thoughts or a touching story like this. I look forward to reading more things from you heThat's warm lovely. It's been snowing heaps here lately just like your profile image!:p.. You too, enjoy this Christmas, and all the best for the next year!:)---mostly, haha.. you know what I mean perhaps...
- Reply woods
- catnfish: I'm still here. It's snowing HARD now!So this is that you mentioned before the hard decision to make?Studying abroad~You're braver than I thought~
- Reply catnfish
- woods: So this is that you mentioned before the hard decision to make?Studying abroad~You're braver than I thought~I think it's a hard decision to quit my job and came here:) But it doesn't seem to be a wrong one.I gain experiences^ ^ Anyway, it's a new year for us, have u made your new year wishes?:p
