I just got off the phone with a dear friend who worked at a rival TV station during my days as a newscaster. He was telling me about an episode more than 10 years ago when the girl he was madly in love with suddenly ignore him and stopped answering his calls. Well, in a sense they broke up and he was devastated. I remembered it vividly! How could I forget? He was a devastated and all of our friends knew something big had taken place in his life.
Well, the funny thing is, he recently got an email on one of these social networking sites from this very girl! At first he could not remember her. She told him about how he would try to impress her with video tapes of his TV shows and the like… But no matter how much he tried he could not seem to remember. Then suddenly, he did!! It was the girl who had ignored him over ten years ago!! He told me that it was almost as if time had stood still. All the emotions of the past came flooding back! The fact was he had never stopped loving her. He simply removed her from his thoughts and buried it deep inside his mind where it could not hurt him. He wanted to start something again, but she had just started seeing someone else. Now my dear friend is once again devastated.
Why do people get so emotional? Why do we have this strange need to attach ourselves to people? Why can’t we all simply love each other unconditionally? I really don’t know. I guess selfishness and greed to wanting someone all to ourselves is simply an in born character implanted into us at birth.
