It was the night after Christmas Eve. I had just broken up with my girlfriend the previous morning. It just wasn’t working out between the two of us. Though the breakup was far from amicable, I’m sure she was just as glad that it had come to an end. I won’t deny it-I was heartbroken and vulnerable. I had become so used to love that I felt I couldn’t breathe without it. My soul longed for belongingness and my heart craved a companion. And amongst these clouds of despair and sadness, there she was, the brightest ray of hope. Her smile so sweet, it melted my heart. Her eyes so bright, the glint in them was hard to miss. Her hair so lustrous, they fell over her shoulder just perfectly. She was indeed the most beautiful girl I had ever set my eyes on. I had fallen in love, and I had fallen hard. I just knew it! She was ‘The One’ for me, she was my soulmate! Not only was she a young woman of only 25, she was 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighed 51.7 kg, worked for a magazine, earned heftily, was interested in young and straight men, and enjoyed traveling and reading. The best part about her was that she was single and available!
*Dude! How in the world did you get these details about her just by looking at her!?* Oh, didn’t I tell you at the start that I was browsing a very popular online dating site? Duh.
Then again, Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes…just be an illusion. My heart-shaped thought bubble which pictured my beautiful soulmate burst into a thousand pieces when I actually met her. She was barely 5 feet ‘tall’, was heavy as ‘heavy’, worked from home for a ‘magazine’ as a freelance columnist, and by earning ‘heftily’ she might have meant checks that bought her hefty hot dogs and burgers. When asked about her traveling and reading interests, apparently a visit to her mother’s was ‘traveling’, and reading the comic strip in the morning newspaper counted as ‘reading’! As if this wasn’t enough, she had very easily forgotten to mention that she was ‘married’, ‘divorced’, and had two ‘children’ from her marriage too! Wow! Talk about ‘how difficult could it be to find love?!’