It was on a moon-lit night during the Mid-autumn festivities organised in school that a young lad realised he was in love. He was consumed with this feeling beyond words and all he could think about was this young lady who he had gotten to know just a few months back though they had been classmates for almost a year now. He smiled to himself, laughed at the slighest provocation and nothing could get him down. Promos was coming and thus this young chap had to hold back and ensure that he would at least get promoted. After the promos which this lad scrapped through with an D for Econs and E for Maths C, he decided to really get to know this girl a little better. They never really went out on a date but they hung out in school, during community service projects and starting from the 17th of Nov, 1998, the courting began. On the 30th of Nov, 1998, this young lad and lass got together and the bubble was evetually burst on the 8th of July 1999, some 6 months and 8 days later. During this short period, this young man learnt several lessons, including that of experiencing that piercing breaking of the heart. This young man used to think of it as metaphorical until he felt it like a sword slowly but surely digging through the flesh till it reached the heart, bursting the arteries and releasing the tears that flow effortlessly from the eyes. It was only a year later, that this young man realised that he had gotten over this young lass. There wasn't resentment or sadness just lessons learnt that he wished he would remember and apply when a similar time came.
This young man, now an undergraduate, has come a long way some four years later. However, he still has the lessons learnt, though fading in his memory, but has yet to find out if he will commit the same mistakes and whether he can actually control things as basic as his emotions of jealousy, possessiveness and sensitivity. Over the years, he has had interest in several lasses, none of which he had actually chased or expected anything from. For a long period of time he bidded his time, for an even longer period he wanted to remain single, having with him another friend who felt the same. People think that this young man would probably attract some attention but alas, these poor souls have been either misguided, misinformed or both. This man knows what is holding him back and the word is fear. Fear is not always bad and can help save many from a potentially precarious situation. However, it is usually also fear that paralyses and causes inertia. This man believes that regret is one of the worst kind of feelings - "What if...". However, he also believes in deliberating the consequences of his actions. What the future holds no one knows but one thing is certain. As false love takes its beating on this man, with each jolting blow, this man will one day fall and not get up again.