Still Waiting: The Heartfelt Journey of Missing Someone and Loving Only Once

Syed Faizan Geelani
S.F.Geelani
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5 min readAug 8, 2024

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In the silence of night, when the world sleeps outside there is a place inside us where the sound of lost love accepted echoes — a place brimming with untold desire, a void of recollections that used to be everything. The importance of not seeing them is crushing; it serves as a daily reminder for both the subjects relating to their current situation and what now never will be or always was.

The Agony of Waiting

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This is a different kind of hell — waiting for someone you love. It sets the stage for a reality more real than anything that ever is, not just ticking minutes and seconds away each year but feelings you go through hour by waking hour every day. And the hours tick by, each one weighed down with all that silence they’ve left behind. It is the empty chair where they once sat, and it is the laughter that was not shared, the dreams left unsaid Echoes of them surround you; pieces they contributed to you that have allowed you to remember who they once were and what is gone for good.

It feels like the world moves on… and you stay suspended. It is these things that make you bitter, all those places you went together and now they are just memories of what was lost. The pain of longing echoes beyond time into the forgotten corners and hidden spaces, becoming a shadow you carry with you up to your very last breath.

“In the garden of his heart, he planted only one rose. He will wait for it to bloom until his last breath.”

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Loving Only Once: A Testament to True Devotion

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For most who have deeply loved just one time, it is an abyss of sentiment that they will rarely if ever explore again. This love is special and deep, a bond that makes you who you are. To love deeply and still wait for that love to be returned is not a sign of weakness; it reveals just how strong the core connection between you two even was. This is a love that has forever changed and will shape you for the rest of your life even after they have left.

Because the burden of that love is to wait for someone you have loved so completely: it is with you every day. It preserves the memory of something truly special; a love that could never be comparable. It transforms into an act of faith, a vow honored in silent observance across time. It mirrors a heart that knows the beauty of love — just once but forever.

“He who loves only once in his life is a true romantic, waiting until the end of days for a love that never dies.”

In that waiting, there is pain and relief. You can see it from the hollow feeling in your stomach and a yearning for times past. But there is comfort, at least the knowledge that it was meaningful and one of those loves which cut deepest into your heart. It is that love that never leaves you, and it remains in your very core every step of the way.

“To love once and wait for eternity is not weakness; it is the profound strength of a heart that knows true love.”

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Embracing the Memories

Remember that while you walk through days of missing and waiting — this journey is also about honor the love that once was. It’s about carrying the fleeting seconds where you did feel like dancing, those spritely minutes that informed your understanding of love. And the love is there to stay, never leaving, even though these people have long gone from our lives. Only because they know how to make us see beauty in all things.

“He loved only once, but that love was an infinite universe; he waited in its constellation until his last breath.”

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Eventually, the waiting and longing become not only about sadness but also about joy — a love that deeply deserves to last forever. And ultimately that is a real testament to what true love really means — time passing, and all. That it retains (retains you) as a vessel where its tendrils have rooted in your veins and arteries — pulsing inside until, every now turning you on quiet nights when the world has gone cold… that there was a great connection, once upon a time.

This journey of waiting and missing is very individual, each will make their own way forward. It is a walk across his memories and sorrows, A Proof of love that never dies. The love that you carry in your heart continues to mold and shape the days, so as you keep waiting for a missed together, know it is because what was yours deserves every little vibrant contact of remembrance within not just one single day.

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Syed Faizan Geelani
S.F.Geelani

Syed Faizan Geelani or S.F. Geelani is a writer from Jammu & Kashmir India...