Something was amiss in his tone when my Indian friend asked me out for coffee. Sportingly I agreed and we met at a coffeeshop near my home. Eventually when I asked him what was wrong he confessed that the past two weeks he was feeling moody and turned to frequenting pubs for drinks; not to get drunk but just to get his mind off matters.
It has already been more than a year since he broke up with his girlfriend, and ever since the initial tumultuous period of getting over it, he has come to terms with his singlehood and in fact began to enjoy it. He found it hard to explain his moodiness but finally concluded that it was probably because he missed being in a relationship. It wasn't so much the loneliness but that indescribable feeling of not having a special someone by his side.
There are so many songs on love and its different facets. Then I remembered a rather appropriate song by Michael Mcdonald entitled I Keep Forgetting:
I keep forgetting we're not in love anymore
I keep forgetting things will never be the same again
I keep forgetting how you made that so clear
I keep forgetting every time that you are near
Even after so long after a break up, there is still that bit of residue that lingers in one's heart. Perhaps that is why people say that the first love is always the most unforgettable. I am not good at consoling people with broken hearts like how I have mentioned in my blog Leave, broken heart. From the words of the Bee Gees in How Can You Mend A Broken Heart:
And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart
And let me live again.
Who really knows how to mend a broken heart?
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