Reuniting with Old Flames

Some people believe in a “one true love,” the power of a “first love,” and we are always searching for that “first-time” feeling again when we go from relationship to relationship. Sometimes we are fortunate to meet up with old friends from years past and play catch-up on each other’s lives, relive our youth, and learn about friends that have since gone away to a better place. Then there’s the one chance you get when the person who got away comes back into your life and you think to yourself, “do I still feel the same?”

I have to admit, there’s nothing like puppy love or that first time you think you’re in love with someone but when you stop to think about what you really love about them, you can’t get past the superficial things like their cute smile, smoldering eyes, or how they have the body type that you like. They might not be as smart as you’d want them to be, as successful, as caring, or as giving of them as you are but hey, that’s why they’re the “puppy love,” right?

Some of you may already know what I’m talking about and some of you might have no idea because you haven’t been there yet. Weather you agree with me or not on my opinion is purely up to you. Once upon a time I was reunited with my “first love.” I remember how I use to swoon over this guy in high school. I remember how he was the best thing in the world even though he didn’t really do anything to deserve the title of #1 man! But I was young, inexperienced in the challenges of relationships, and I wanted to be loved. Needless to say, we didn’t get anywhere but years later we met again and while my heart beat fast to hear his voice over the phone, I asked myself the question: Do I still feel the same?

Time passed for us. Time took away whatever we could have had. Seeing the person he became and the person I became, I knew I didn’t have the same feelings for him. We were two people fresh out of bad relationships and while I remained hopeful for something good to come my way, he was convinced that the opposite sex were money hungry she-devils. Just because his ex-girlfriend had him pay for everything, he thought all women were the same. We were two broken people with out the means to fix each other (not that I wanted to fix him). While we didn’t spark up a new romance, I learned something from him that would later repeat-they always come back to the one that got away. And I was “that one.”