I have been on this earth for 33 years, I’ve heard a million stories of different people from different walks of life….on love, despair, heartbreak, friendship, family, comedy, sex, and so on….It is with great pride as I unfold their stories as they truly touched mine, their struggles and triumphs, beyond those laughters are perhaps a river of tears. Looking through their eyes, I see the essence of mankind is still built on pure heart.

*****I stand alone….

She covered her bruises above her eyes with make up, she won’t let anyone know what she has been through that day. To top that, she won’t let the man lying on the couch win! That night would be the first night she has ever been to a real party with all her friends. All her life, she’d put up with the same man who made all parts of her body blue. Well in fact, he should’ve catch her when she fell off the tree or chase down the boys who made her cry instead he made her walk down the dark alley just to buy his freakin’ cancer sticks or his stupid alcoholic drinks. Who knows who’s lurking behind those dark passages waiting to grab and choke her? ”Tonight”, she said, “is my night, I won’t let you ruin everything I have worked for! You can cut my body into pieces but you cannot take away my soul!”

*****I love you….goodbye!

He had never been out of his room for ages, God knows when was the last time he shaved. Or showered for that matter! He didn’t care! There had never been a day that he couldn’t get her off of his freakin’ head! He’s haunted by her memories…her irritating laugh, her silly smirk, how her voice swayed with the rustling of the leaves, the way she tied her shoes or how her smell flooded the room. He missed how her hands fit into his or waking up in the morning with a big “I love you” on his inbox. If he could only turn the hands of time, he would probably go back to the  day she made him the happiest man in the world! She was his, and his heart belonged to her completely. Looking at the empty room, he didn’t know where to start or how to begin with.  Without her, life was fallin’ into pieces, an unbearable pain cutting into his heart, and things didn’t matter anymore. But he’s had enough one day! Got up and picked up the remaining pieces and glued ‘em one by one to make himself whole again. For life is never about winning, it is about how one stood up every time he fell down on the rocks!

*****’Til death do us part….

One step, another step. By the time she reached the bed, she’s already breathless. She kissed him on the forehead, he’s still sleepin’. She looked at the man she married for 24 years to this day. Her heart swelled as she held his wrinkly hands. “I love you, forever”, she whispered. 

She was at the top of her career, working endlessly until she no longer could cut her nails. Determined to way her way to the world and to the young ones she deeply loved. All her life, they were her world. She would to anything to keep them and give them a good future.

It wasn’t definitely a love at first sight when she met him, her life was obviously too complicated. She saw him as her way out, by just  one flick of a finger, she’d able to give them the life she dreamed of eversince they were in her care. Sadly, she wasn’t in love with the man she agreed to marry. They were living in one roof yet nothing kept them together. She became a dutiful wife. Days, months, years passed. She saw the husband differently. He understood her crazy life, he took care of her when she had her surgery, the fact that she couldn’t bear him a son or a daughter. It was then, everyday she fell in love with the man she married.  She loved seeing him after his work, watching him sleep, or even kiss him on the tip of his nose. She saw how loving his eyes were when he looked at her from across the room full of people, or how her heart drummed when he smiled. 

By the time the doctors broke the news that her husband was very ill that he could no longer go back to his work due to his altered state. Her world came crumbling down. God joined them together as husband and wife in front of the eyes of those who truly loved them. She’d sworn to love him every inch of her body, that she’d be forever….his wife.

And now, she could hear her husband calling her name.

Sad....sad....sad....soooooo saddddddddddd!!!