The Breakup (Posted 2 years ago)

Gloria sat on a park bench. It was late in the day and the clouds floated lazily by her in the sky with the sun poking it’s head out from behind them every so often. Children played near by. Their laughter mocking her as her life laid decimated like a battle field after the fighting was over. Dead bodies lying everywhere, cold and lifeless.

Gloria had just been given the speech. You know what I mean, the speech where you are told that you don’t meet all the requirements to continue being pursued as a person who should be desired. Where the person you have invested all your hope in informs you that they have reached that tipping point where your presence is no longer an asset but a liability. Where all the time you invested that you can never get back seems like a puff of smoke and smells just as bad.

Gloria had invested 3 years of her life into the now just defunct relationship. She had thought everything was progression smoothly and in fact she was hoping that this rendezvous at the park would result in a more permanent arrangement between her and the object of her affection but the object of her affection was not interested in making their relationship more permanent. In fact he was interested in the exact opposite which was to dissolve it as if it never existed in the first place.

Whenever an emotion bond is broken there is pain and Gloria was feeling this pain very deeply. The future she imagined was her’s was in fact not her’s at all. The person she thought she knew she really didn’t know as well as she should have. They say love is blind and it is true that love puts up with a lot but Gloria didn’t see the signs that her relationship was dying. She didn’t notice that her lover was drifting away from her but she knew it now. It was all to painful now.

Gloria just sat on the park bench and cried. She didn’t know what else to do. She had to take the time to process what had just happened to her. To mourn the relationship that had been murdered before her eyes. A man selling balloons passed by her and noticeing her distress gave her a baloon as a gift. Several children, sensing that she was sad, tried to coax her into playing with them and even the birds sensed something and tried to cheer her up with their beautiful songs but Gloria felt worthless right now. In time she would regain her confidence. It would take a lot of healing and help from those who cared about her but she would recover and move on with her life.