A Boy meets a Girl and falls in love.
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Every day the above happens all across the world, with no exception. Like a well-timed Swiss watch, a Boy falls for a Girl.
Please bear with me despite having made such a blatant unidirectional statement.
Love may be as old as time itself, or even older. Think about the Big Bang. Everything that has ever existed, that exists today, and that will ever exist in the future to be, derives from the same event: an explosion. I like to think that this explosion was one of feelings. Molecular feelings that got misunderstood and clashed, unleashing the creation of everything, including us. You and I. A Boy and a Girl.
Whereas a Boy falls for a Girl, the opposite may not be true, thus please understand why the above, unidirectional, statement was made.
Imagine trying to reunite yourself with your other after clashing, 14.8 Billions of years ago. One clash has divided itself into the creation of worlds, stars, and galaxies. The death of each one of these led to a series of destructions that, consequently, reunited to create new worlds, new stars, and new galaxies. To this day we’re still able to look at the oldest of galaxies from which we come from. Their death meant our creation, as our Solar System was created from molecular clouds that resulted from the explosion of a huge star, therefore, as the late Carl Sagan used to say: we are made of stardust.
If this is the case, and knowing that we came from a star that came from another and so on, until the beginning of everything, then what’s to say that a Girl doesn’t fall in love with a Boy simply because he’s not the match that was Billions of years ago? What’s to say that when our Sun finally extinguishes itself and explodes, our hint of matter is sent back to the dark void that is the Universe and we’re grouped back together, on a different age, in different conditions, until, finally, a Girl will fall in love for her right Boy? Will then Love prevail? I hope so, and I hope they endure and make the most of their time together, because the never-ending process of creation-destruction-creation will leave them, once more, searching for one another until the next time the stars align.
Arguments and clashes have these repercussions, to let go because of meaningless friction may mean to fight your way through the Universe until you’re reunited once again.
Love may be as old as time itself, maybe even older, and it has never been more complicated.
