Kwentong Kolehiyo

Forever

Most girls are quick to get overwhelmed by the fleeting emotions and sheer bliss of a new love. It's when everything is rainbows, unicorns, butterflies; like every moment together is a scene perfectly crafted out of a Cathy Molina-Garcia film. Gift-wrapped, bow-tied, signed, sealed, delivered euphoria. In effect, this brings about ridiculous levels of optimism, selfish expectations, and - at present - countless arguments about whether or not forever exists.

I'm not gonna tell you it does just I'm not gonna tell you it doesn't.

Let's face it, 10 out of 10 times you get emotionally involved with and attached to someone, you get hurt. And each time that happens, you lose faith. And when you lose faith, you give up. There goes forever out the window. Reality is, you're not Bea Alonzo; and a significant lot of boyfriends you'll have, might I say, will probably turn out to be more of a Jason Abalos than a John Lloyd Cruz. Not quite the match made in heaven you imagined. Fights will ensue, text messages will be left unanswered, social media privacy will be violated, and before you know it, you're binge drinking yourself to death blaming your unfortunate circumstances on pop songs and ABS-CBN's teleseryes. And that really sucks, but it is what it is. After all, nagmahal ka lang. It doesn't take a Ramon Bautista tweet to absorb the fact that he's a self-gratified, self-centered, two timing asshole.

Instead of doing better like any other rational, self-preserving human being would, you again immediately put yourself out there just right after a week or so of getting shit-faced, and start throwing yourself at the next seemingly forever-capable dickwat you meet. You get an A for persistence but a big fat F for self-worth. See, it doesn't work like that. You don't go jumping from one dude to the next when trying to prove something as valuable as forever. 'Wag mong ipilit at madaliin para hindi mo sinisisi sa ending kapag nabigo ka; dahil ang forever, hindi porke't hindi mo makuha, eh hindi na totoo.

But should this dissuade you from believing that there is, in fact, a forever and a happy ending? No, it shouldn't. Should you continue your stellar streak of bad choices and awful taste in men? By all means, sure. But putting a bad name in forever out of spite is intolerable. 'Wag mong sisihin ang forever dahil wala din namang kinalaman ang forever sa kalandian mo.

To make my point; start making better choices. Because much like anything else that has value in this world, ang forever eh kailangan ng tamang panahon, tamang timing at mahabang habang pasensya.

Little Missy

2013

Faculty of Arts and Letters