In this business of matchmaking, we bring together random people to become friends, business partners, and if they’re lucky, maybe lovers. This was the case for a close friend of mine who I asked to join. She came to the event with no expectations. She just came to support me plus, she was single. Hehe Instead of finding love, I think it was more like love that found her.
We think of Love in such positive way, that it rarely occurs to us how appalling it could also be.
She caught an “admirer”. She met a guy who has fallen COMPLETELY and IMMENSELY in love with her from the moment that they’ve met. Nothing would have made us thought that he could be like this. I guess the guy paid good money to have found the person who he feels would complete him; although we do not guarantee they would reciprocate. Lol.
This guy has texted her love quotes, to self-authored love quotes, to love messages. He has waited for her in front of their building (lucky for him, bad luck for her, they live in the same building). He has taken up swimming every Sunday now (since she goes swimming on Sundays); persistently texts her after I have “interfered” as the organizer of the speed dating; and the most recent one, has written her a 2-part love emails that were written with so much passion...that it was mind blowing.
She has asked her to be just a friend, since he knew that she was not at all interested to even keep in contact with him; asked her to stay around, so that he would have the will to go on, to look for her “replacement”; which he later said that he doubt that he’d find anyway. He has shamelessly asked her to treat her like a brother, a classmate (that you ignore! My gawd), or just be a person who would reply to his texts and emails.
My reactions have gone from WTF s to OMGs.
Couldn’t help but feel like that I was sort of at fault haha. But then I started to put myself in his shoes, tried understanding where he’s coming from, and I’ve read his love email to her again, and I could only conclude that a person who could humiliate himself like that is exactly what a person who is TRULY in love would do. He would risk it all. He has lost his mind. He is in love. He’s just like Tom Cruise in Oprah talking about Katie Holmes sans Tom’s hotness haha.Although saying this, I am not encouraging my friend to go out with him, haha, dear God NO! I am just saying that it’s kind of distressing to see, not just him, but anybody, to be like this.
Well, I just wish for him to find someone that he would love as much as he does my friend, and who would also love him back. But then again, is this not what we all want?
