corny ending alert!!
Have you ever had one of those moments, where you find yourself reading or watching tv where the character is in an unenviable position, a cliché moment where its hard to believe that its just merely pure coincidence where the character is on the wrong end of a classic case of cruel irony? Yes, we often point and laugh at these situations, thinking that such things only exists in the realm of fiction. How very wrong we are, for life does in fact imitate art as much as art imitates life.
Even in real life, we can often find ourselves bemoaning our luck, that special “oh great, that’s just great!!” moment. In fact we aren’t actually exclaiming how great our situation is, but we are in all actuality mirroring our sad predicament with such an oxymoronic ejaculation. Its called pure irony folks.
Albert’s life has a good share of irony. Yes, everything from the ones that make you grab a tissue box, to the ones where you roll on the ground with uncontrollable laughter.
As I begin to narrate an important event in his life, I hope that you persevere all the way to the end of this posting, as you would be deservedly rewarded by the time you reach the final word, in the intellectual sense.
As all good stories go, there’s a girl involved. He would kill me if I told you who she was, so for my well-being, lets keep her a secret shall we? Well his whole life can be split into 2 different phases. Before the girl, and after the girl. Before the girl, he was a reserved kid, shy round girls, and generally not living as he really should. Look, it was a torrid time for the Ego, those 4 months, when I had to share his consciousness with her, but it was his hormones that decided to conspire against him. Heck, even the Ego didn’t get a hint of what was going on, they were really good. It will take me a while to forgive what they did, but here’s what happened.
One moment, he was his normal self, then the next, he saw her face, then somehow the stars seemed to suddenly aligne, trust me, its not easy to get them to line up, his hormones got it down to clockwork. Some kind of internal harmonious symphony suddenly just kicked into action, playing a hypnotic tune, so melodious in her wake. It gripped his mind like nothing he had ever known, by the time I realized, it was too late. I could do nothing to save him. He had a crush.
Can you imagine? The Great Ego, giving way to a girl!Had to take a backseat for a while, those vile, sneaky bastards.
So in all the Ego's wisedom, told him to enjoy it while he could. That time was when he started to actually identify to corny love songs,and such, in fact, corny was slowly slipping away from his vocabulary, scarry indeed. So with the Ego and her trying to gain control of him, the Ego succeeded in preventing him from doing anything as assinine as courting her, but the stalking could not be helped. There is only soo much the Ego could do in that kind of situations. And soo it was, with him on cload nine, and the Ego tagging along with a sour, moody face.
You know the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder", yeah, well thats bullshit. Thank goodness. It took a little more than a month of "absence" from her or seeing her, and he was cured of all puppy-love-sickness. And finally the Ego regained full control of him. And finally, his rite of passsage was over, all teenage affliated things which came hand in hand with hormones finally came to a full circle. She was gone, his pimples were gone, and the hormones are gone too, maintaining a low profile, as they should, or they'll face the Ego's wrath. But he guesses, this was his renaissance, finally, he was complete. This year, the world witnessed a new Albert, one that would'nt bat an eyelid at being hot on the scorching trails of some blistering hot chick or other. His confidence, somehow just spilled over. All because of her.
But of course, she will always be that special one. In spite of him having roving eyes. But the irony was that she was the last person he would choose to have any sort of feelings for, he regrets the whole charade of actually liking HER of all people.Sometimes he wonders, if only he didnt look at her at that very moment in that way, if only he didnt check her out, wouldnt things be soo much more different? In all his sensibility, he knows that she's the last girl he would go for, and yet, she just had to be the ONE. But that's just how it is isnt it? Of all the fish in the ocean Albert, of all of them.........
But now that is well and truly old news. Just another skeleton in his cupboard. And now hes pretty much resigned to losing her to another guy, it doesnt really matter to him, whoever that lucky s. o. b. is. He doesnt mind being beaten to her by a richer guy, a smarter guy, a more handsome guy or a more charming guy, but never, never has and never will, be beaten by a guy who felt for her as much as he did.( this was the best ending in mind, deosnt really reflect the truth, so dont take it too literally)
Saturday, October 28, 2006
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