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Past is Fast

Jaime's POV

I'm surprised like hell. Windell? No, he can't be.

We shake hands like he doesn't know each other as he introduces himself without any emotion on his face.

As we shake our hands my heart told me that it's Windell... Those soft hands, those long eyelashes, and those eyes. But my mind told me that his not.

You may seem alive to my eyes but your buried dead in my heart and nothing can change it. I did everything just to move on and I don't want to suffer like before.

Many parts of my broken heart
From the day when it fell apart
My whole world came crashing down
And it fell without a sound

All the love that you stole
Left me standing in a whole
From the day my world fell apart
I'm standing here with a broken heart

A second that passes feel like an hour
All my emotions are left sour
Feeling all hollow and left alone
My heart has turned into solid stone

A broken heart was the death of me
It's now so simple to see
Isn't it better to fall
Than to never have loved at all?

Wayne's POV

When we were in the meeting someone walks in the door. Nobody should enter the hall after the meeting is over so I got curious who is it.

"Excuse me? Where do you think you're going?" I asked.

"I'm sorry. I'm Jaime's fiance something came up so we need to go as soon as possible. I'm sorry for the inconvenience." He replies

"And the important matter is?" I asked out of curiosity

"It's confidential I'm sorry." He replies

"Ok, today's meeting is over and I'm not going to sign the contract," I said as I stand up.

"Why sir?" Jaime asked me.

I got no idea what to answer so I turn back the question

"Why not?" I said

"I'm sorry sir but I think you're not being professional here. Our past got nothing to do with this. I worked hard for this and I did everything I could to get this contract done" she said.

"Our past? I'm sorry but we just met. I don't even know who you are. If you want that contract signed then make me" I replied.

"We're not done here. We're going to discuss this tomorrow"

***

December 2, 2025

It's already 12 am and I can't fall asleep because that scene Is flashing over and over again.

Wow. Our past? Big words

Some of us enjoy history. We see it as a truth, a guide to the future, a beautiful story. Some of us hate history. We see it as a boring waste of time.

But undeniably, we all have at least this one common association with history: We’ve all, at one point or another, looked back on our own history, our past, and analyzed it for everything that it is, whether it be our children, a bad relationship, or one of those great moments of embarrassment that just comes back to haunt you and remind you how awkward of a person you really are. Whether you’re missing the happiness of a simpler time or trying to find the first tumble of the dominos of your life that somehow all came falling down. You’re tampering with your past. We remember what we’ve been through because it's quite important to who we are today. But you all know this.

If you’re like me, you’re wondering why we all share this common obsession with our past. Why do we care? I mean, we are where we are in life and that should be the end of the story, right? Except I want to figure out why I have issues with authority. And maybe you want to find out why you can’t commit. Whatever it is we’re looking to solve within ourselves we know it began in the past, so we look to see where it started in hopes of learning from it. In hopes of having the ability to see the bright red warning signs in the future that something or someone is going to cause a lot of problems in our life.

Sadly, we always fall victim to the future anyway.

I thought that we look to the past to learn from our mistakes, but after a few times of making the same mistake over and over again, I had a different idea.

The thing about the past is that there is absolutely nothing we can do about it, yet it creates this monster inside of us while we regret it or miss it. The past is so haunting because we are SO helpless in mending it. I mean all of our lives we have been taught if we have a problem, we find a solution. It’s elementary. That is simply the basics of biology right there, ladies and gents. However, the problem is the past is just one big unfixable problem and how do we humans deal with devastating helplessness? That inability to do anything goes against the grain of our survival.

For example, how many times have you or a friend said, “God, I wish we could go back to being in kindergarten when we had naptime. I took advantage of that”? You guys laugh about it, but there is a bit of truth to that simple statement. You’re missing a time when life was easier, and a part of you tugs at realizing you’re never going to get that time back. You absolutely miss something you’ll never get to experience again.

Yeah, yeah, you can say okay then if you can’t do anything learn from the past, forget it and move on. Easier said than done. And what if you misinterpreted the lesson? Convince yourself otherwise?

So we move on from the past anyway and look forward to the future, keeping in mind that history always repeats itself.

By Mary Spindler

Forget her name
Forget her face
Forget her smile
Her warm embrace
Forget the love that you once knew
Remember that she loves someone new
Forget her when they played your song
Remember you cried all night long
Forget how close you once were
Remember she has chosen him
Forget how you memorized her walk
Forget the way she used to talk
The things she used to say
Remember she has gone away
Forget her laugh
Forget her grin
The small dimples on her chin
Forget the way she held you tight
Remember she's with him tonight
Forget the time that went fast
Forget the love that moved, it's the past
She said she'd leave you never
Remember you left her
Forever

by Alexis Alexis