Who Wants to Live Forever

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There’s no chance for us
Its all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us

Those are lyrics from Queen’s Who Wants to Live Forever. My past loves like to use words like Forever, Always, Tetap. I have good excuse never to rely on those words; none of those men is with me today.

My first love uses “Tetap Sayang”. Even today. In the meantime, he had gone on and made a family for himself.

My second love says “Love Forever”. There were hundreds of letters bearing those words. Where is he now? Gone and raised a family for himself. I have shredded every single piece of the now meaningless letters.

When third love started to play with “I will Always love you”, alarm bells rang in my head. And I rang it loud and clear for him too. Told him from the outset I didn’t believe in it.

Those words should be banned from romantic vocabulary. When we can’t even tell what’s to happen in the next second, how can we pretend to know how we would feel at any time in the future?

The only thing that is certain is change. It is a better bet any time.

As Mercury sang…Who waits forever anyway…
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