Well like a lot of bored people my age who love to meet people, I decided to download this app. For some it might be the best decision, for me its the worse decision Iâve made for a while. I download the app and start swiping didnât reject many not being picky, well as inevitable some matches show up, had 5 matches at different times, messaged all five only one replied, Well they werenât standard âHey How are you?â we all know this is leads to dull convos, They were Ice breakers I thought they would like based on the profile. One profile stood out. A dark haired girl, slim ,and fair in complexion, Claims to like literature and history, also likes running and football. Seeing that I simply thought âIf I ever get anyone like that, Iâll consider myself blessed by God.â By some stroke of fate or luck or a cruel and twisted joke we turned out to be a match. Hesitating at first, after all I donât want to mess this up it may be the only chance i get. 12 hours go before I message her, 12 hours thinking, 12 hours contemplating, 12 hours anticipating. I felt like Iâve just been offered a shiny new bowl with crystal clear water inside, after a lifetime in the desert, would be a shame to spill it due to impatience wouldnât it? Finally I decide on âHey :) Finish the quote â Is this a dagger which I see before me...â â. It would make sense to know this quote most people Iâve known to like history and literature have been a fan of Shakespeare like I am. A few hours pass and she flawlessly replies âHandle toward my hand, let me clutch thee... Is that right I havenât read Macbeth in agesâÂ
And for the first time in so long I felt my heart skip a beat, felt a bit of hope that maybe someone did think and feel like me. I reply â Actually its âcome let me clutch theeâ still pretty good if you havenâ read it in a while, Whats your favorite book?â With this I leave to go Rugby Training, Mind now thoroughly set on running, catching, and more running, but the surprise that awaits me when I get back ...âPride and Prejudice whats yourâsâ she replies, exactly 1 minute after I sent my earlier message and there it is again, my heart skipped another beat. Pride and Prejudice is my favorite real book, my favorite reads are all plays though. Briskly I reply so and apologise for not replying as quickly as she did and blamed rugby, message sends and 20 minutes later I get a reply. I click on the message icon and wait for it to load and then...
The App crashes, oh well as soon as I reopen the app the message will still be there wonât it? It canât just disappear after all. WRONG in horror and disgust I click on my messages and sheâs not there, only my other âmatchesâ. As if to commemorate my shortcomings, as if I just imagined her existence, her messages, her favorite book. Its like Iâve just had the shiny bowl knocked out my hand all the precious water spilling to the floor leaving me with just the bowl to stare at and admire for pleasure. I look it up and apparently all you have to do is to login and back out. Couldnât possibly get worse than this can it? YES IT CAN, Logging back in and now all my matches are gone, great now I donât even have the bowl to look at anymore.Â
Is this what hell feels likes, is this what Sisyphus feels every time he rolls the boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down for eternity? Is my like a cruelly unfair joke to some higher being, a lab experiment? Lets make him without flaws, breed him in a favorable environment put him without the problems of others and make his situations UNIQUE, lets make sure nothing adds up for him, lets keep him alone perhaps Iâm cursed, by someone else who might know me want me to suffer, but why...
And then it comes again, the words, the mantra, the drive that took me this far, gave me the hunger to survive, to carry on alone and unassisted, the hunger thats never failed me;Â
âFeel nothing, take in nothing, want nothing.â
âMinute by Minute, hour by hour, when you lose your drive youâll lose your power.â
But even in face of adversity, and tribulations its not all gloom and doom, after all youâre still alive still healthy, and most importantly still yourself, sometimes you canât change things.
âDear Lord grant me the Serenity to accept the things I canât change, to change the things i can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
And on I trundle the world is full of chances and opportunites maybe this is just a reminder I wonât always be alone.