Happily ever after? What

I remember how we held hands thinking things would stay this way forever. Do you? I remember how we used to nap together because we were extremely tired to go back home. Don't you? I remember all those promises we made sitting under the trees. Broken, are they now? I remember how we were convinced this would last forever. Or would it? I remember everything. From the first fight to the last laugh. I remember the good, the bad.
Do I want to? No. Do I miss you? Yes. Do we want to get back? Definitely not.

It is only after experiencing something do we realize how stupid it was, in the first place. All of us, we crave love so much that at times we accept whatever comes our way. We confuse love with lust or infatuation or just plainly, attraction. We are so desperate to be loved that we justify the actions of our beloved in our head, just so that we wouldn't lose them. I know I did. It's a very stupid thing, to do that. Why do, all of us base our entire lives on some romantic love, though? There most certainly is more to life than a puerile relationship. Why are we all so hell bent on finding our-significant-other-half?

Someone asked me what my bucket list was and as I stated it, I was astonished to find that it had nothing to do with my-soul mate, or whatever. I realized that I want to travel the world, party a lot, be good at what I do and eat loads and loads of food. That was when I realized that I don't need a guy to complete me or define who I am. That there's more to my life than a love that went wrong. That I'd rather travel the world alone than be stuck at home with a guy.

Like Lana Del Ray once said: It's good to love and be loved but it's better to know all that you can know.
There's no such thing as forever. There are no happily ever afters, either. You might think you've found-the-one but believe you me, you'll never find the-one, for that is not the purpose of life anyway. The people you thought would stay with you till eternity, won't. The people you thought were honest souls, aren't. So while you can't change the universal truth: Nothing is constant. Nothing lasts till the end of time, you can make yourself get accustomed to it.

So go ahead, live your life exactly the way you want to live it. Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough. Travel the world, if that's what you want. Drink up, if that's what floats your boat. And just know that you don't need someone to complete you. There is no other-half. You're the entire picture, yourself. I realized that soon enough. Did you?