Feb 10 2008
Unrequited love
Uneven feelings…The English language has a suitable combination of words to express love that is not shared equally between two parties. The English speak about unrequited love. I find it quite to the point, actually. Visual Thesaurus has the definition as “not returned in kind”. Interestingly, this would take us to look up kind in the process, only to realize that the word actually puts substance of equality to the enterprise that fails.
In the same week, two things happened. I sent her an email with five sentences that looked more like coordinates describing what was going on with my life, leaving a question open for answer of a similar nature at the end. No answer has come yet. Obviously she does not have enough time to occupy her mind with those who may love her truly. She never has.
This morning, somebody asked me to return her love in kind. But I could not…
This week, I am reading Felisberto Hernández, and revisiting a recent short story I wrote. It could be significantly shortened, I think.
