Dear

Dad & mom

                Enough is enough I say, I am sick and tired of being looked at like that. I was 10 when I wanted to comb my hair in the way I wanted and dad, mom you said no to it. you both said “son ,do it the way we tell you, that’s best for you” I was 15 and I wanted to take up commerce stream because I knew at heart I was not the studious type and dad, mom you said no to it you said “son, take science stream, do it the way we tell you, that’s best for you ” I was 17 and I wanted to become a journalist, and you said no to that too .i took engineering and came as close as to as becoming a college dropout .I was 22 I met the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with and like always I listened to you both and I had to let her go.

                                                              In a week time, I will be 23 and you both are still telling me what to and what not to do with my life, at what time to go out… who should be my friends….what time I should be back home. I am 23 not 2 or 3 years old. I can understand the love you both have for me, I am blessed you both care so much .I can understand the dreams that you have for me. I am afraid I won’t be able to live up those dreams of yours. Not because I can’t it is because I won’t, I refuse to live my life to your terms from now on. I have had enough of being told what to do with my life can’t you see I am struggling? I don’t sleep anymore, I don’t talk to both of you anymore, I don’t laugh anymore, I skulk inside the house trying to avoid you both, I spend more time out so that I will see less of you both every day, I come home late way past your “curfew time” because I don’t want to have dinner with you both .i hurt you that way, and I am sorry. I beg you to allow me, to please allow me to live my life on my own, I am not saying I might excel at it, but at least I will have a life of my own, I beg you to allow me to make mistakes get hurt and learn from my mistakes and move on, just leave me and let me be. I don’t want to hate you both for loving me a little too much. There are limits for everything but not love, even letting go of someone is a form of love is it not?

So I ask you to kindly let me go, am taking my freedom to live my life on my own from now on. I will always be there for you both.

Love

Son  

I on the other hand didn’t understand exactly what she meant. Whereas she actually meant it has been 2 years and 2days we had been together. a goodbye would have sufficed, but its better to bid farewell someone who has been always there for u no matter however lean patch that you are going through in life, with a hug and some tears, than a phone call.

 What went wrong? Why did the relationship end? Where did all the love go? How did it end? That is a very painful story and also a very common one.

 we indeed  ended the relationship some months back ,but we met this day just to say a final goodbye, just to say, ”have a good life, take care” for I as well as she knows very well; we will never meet again as long as we live. The world might be small place but yet without saying it to each other we both knew, we will never cross paths again. I was at first skeptical about this meeting, for I did fear her sandals will find my face, when she sees me (though some people are disappointed with her not slapping me) but she didn’t.

 On the other hand she was surprised i came to see her off. i went because even if we never meet again this life, maybe after many years when she thinks of me, i don’t want her to think of me as a coward who ran away but as someone who stood by her all the way till the very end. i pray that keeping her happy and smiling all those last few hours she will remember me the way i would like her to remember me.

 As she turned and walked away I stood there watching her go for the last time, I remembered that I had once sworn to myself I would keep her happy, I smiled as she walked away glancing back at me every now and then, i did try my best all the while I was with her, that’s all what i could do for her. Those last few hours with her will remain within me a closed chapter, forever.

i miss u
i tell u
it hurts a little
each time i think of u.
i dont know,if u still
think of me
i fear i will fade away
from within you
and cease
as if i were never there.
i miss u
i tell u
with my silence