Once upon a time ...

once upon a time when i was a teenager i had a crush on a boy..
i had not met him many times but i wrote to him often
wrote to him long letters with details of my dreams and my daily accounts...
i loved writing and so did he....
and through our letters we fell in love........

but as we grew... the times became harder ...
peer pressure weighed and i wished he were nearer..
i wished to see him more... but things kept him occupied ...
i then started seeing too much into the things he did and often did not...
he was less than perfect i analyzed ...  and so was i ... but that i forgot...
so i fell out of love with him... and resolved to moved on in life...

i tried my best never to tread back into his lanes again... and that i was good at..
with time i settled for happiness, the kind most of us seek..
i settled in life with my love, family and dreams... and let his memories haze...

yet sometimes when common threads spring up and i hear he is well
nostalgia strikes, sends me back to visit those lanes ...
his lanes that i had left once..
but now, in retrospect, i feel glad that we had met and then moved on
for happiness and well-being for both of us lay along different ways
but that brief affair was sweet and i would have it no other way ...
... in retrospect, i feel glad that we had met and then moved on our own different ways...

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