This is a guest blog submitted by sleepyhead.I couldn't stop thinking about her today. Maybe because it’s 9/11 and
I'm remembering things from around that time period, but she's been on
my mind all day. It's just one of those days, no matter what happens
or who's by my side, she runs through my head. You know what I'm
saying? That one person you thought you could spend forever with. I
don't do this often but there are days when my memory gets triggered.
There's one place that triggers a specific event: it's right around Central Park.
I
was a guest speaker at a dinner function, and during my speech, I let
everyone there know I wanted to end up with her forever. Then I saw her
in the middle of auditorium, smiling at me, and I knew I had done the
right thing. Things didn't work out like they were supposed to. But
around this time every year whenever I go by Central Park, she pops
into my head and I start to wonder what could have been.
Is there something that triggers your memory bank about that one person you let slip away? What do you remember about him or her ?
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Yeah. When I go up to Vulcan Park at night. (it overlooks downtown Birmingham) I remember us being there and asking him what he thought of when looking at the city lights. He said "Opportunity" He asked me what I saw ad I couldn't answer. Now, when I look I see him. I see us and what could have been.
Sorry things didnt work out for you :o( But no, there isn't someone from my past that "got away". I have yet to find the person I want to grow old and spend the rest of my life with!! Hope you find her too. :o)~
Yeah there is someone. We're still great friends but he's married now. The worst past is we parted on good terms only because we lived in separate areas and I chose to go to a school that wasn't near him.
Things have changed since then but I still think about him and know that I will always love him. I don't think I could've learned so much about myself and love from anyone else.
I strongly believe that these things happen for a reason and that in the end, what could have been is probably best never being.
oh and with me it's usually certain songs and Arizona. Particularly the Tempe area.
Every now and again, when I see a volleyball game. She wasa v-ball player, and I was wickedly cruel to her in parting ways. She later married a guy who was of the same profession as myself, had majored in the same subjects that I had, was from a rural state like I am, and wanted to live his life the same way I wanted to live mine. I miss her extraordinarily less, now that I'm married, and even wonder if we could have gotten married, now that I have my wife....but there is always a little wondering about what could have happened had I reacted differently before the time we parted ways....
oh man...i can not help but miss his smile and the way he held my hand.
Yes, but I knock those thoughts out of my head. I don't believe that there is such a thing as "the one that got away." Because there was always a reason for letting that person get away. And that reason, even if you might second guess it now, was a real one for that time in your life and that relationship.
yes there is..so happened that there's one ex bf who could have been..just that the its the wrong time then..i often dreamt about him..sweet dreams then i wake up teary eyed..
but theres no point that i linger on that now..
Whenever I listen to the new Panic at the Disco album. Because I was so excited to have her listen to it. Then she broke up with me. What a smashing day!
aww, that's really sweet. =)
I haven't officially gotten on that stage, but I think I'm getting closer. I'm just afraid things will turn out for the worse, and then, she'll become the one who got away.
literally almost everything reminds me of this one girl who I still wanna be with...
everything... from movies i've seen and do see (save for maybe transformers or 300... well maybe not)... to the music i hear on the radio... to other little activities make me miss this girl even more... even when i don't think about it I tend to drift back to her...
I hope to god that's not how I feel when my current relationship ends.
Oh, man, I love him so much. This just makes me want to cry.
random props.
Everyone has someone that they let slip through their fingers. Whether if it was an argument, due to a third party or if they passed away for some reason. Everyone has lost someone due to one of those circumstances. If you can walk up to any random person and ask them if they've never lost someone significant to them, than I'll bow down to you gratiously... Remincing upon a past love is a wonderful thing to do, it allows you to appreciate the finer things in-life when it comes, but remember it and move on.. Don't let thoughts like that hold you down or impede on your ability to be happy.. Everything happens for a reason, whether that reason becomes known or not is besides the point, everything happens for reason. The things that happen in-life, teaches us not to laugh to hard or cry to somberly...
Anyhow, I hope you have a great day!
Yep. I think about that person maybe once a day, and then I remember what an ass he was and how he almost used me so I stop.
after a while you just rationalize it away.
Coach buses bring back memories of a special girl i thought was perfect. I was only 17, but still think that back then, it couldve been something real.
I get somewhat sad and nostalgic on those buses now
My last relationship I tend to think about all the time, and I wouldn't say it's a bad or a good thing. If you felt like she was "the one who got away" you should tell her. Maybe she feels the same way and you can rekindle?
Sorry to hear that, but I hope your life works out for the better, and you'll remember from your mistakes with that one.
I've had a few slip through my fingers, but it was always for the better. It just takes a while for me to realize that. Most of the time, I think about the last one that got away. In fact, one of my posts today deals with that.
go for it. find her. y not?
a lot of stuff can trigger your memory, a certain taste, a certain image, and a certain scent. for me it's the places we've been and the shampoo that she uses. i couldn't describe it clearly, but once i see/smell it again, it comes right back. kinda scary.
I get one of those days where I think about an ex, too. Live Oak Park is the main key here. That's where it started and that's where it ended.
Yeh, certain songs is what did it for me. Certain phrases that you distinctly remember them singing to you and grinning that smile.
*sigh* good times, and good memories.. makes you wonder why you ever left....Â
Absolutely not. I look back and am glad I am no longer with my exes. I shudder as I think what could have been had I stayed with either of them (only have 2). So don't want to go there and I'm glad I'm not!
he wasn't someone who got away, but every time I see Audis on the road, I think of him. I think of the few times we held hands in his car.