Losing Love Essay

Losing Love Essay

A fact of human relationships is "People come and people go", though we may wish it wasn't so. Someone that we have loved with all of our hearts, one day can vanish from our lives, quietly. It's not necessary to be a death. Sometimes simple circumstance can take a best friend, a lover or a partner right out of your hands, never to be seen again. There's a quote “Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.” That's what happens to me, there's a phobia in me so called "losing love". Thinking about the possibility of losing someone I love is devastating my feeling so badly. You may have invested too much of your time and feelings for that person and so just the thought of losing that person would leave you in a state of panic. I'm suffering from this phobia whenever I'm in any kind of relationship: friendship, with my family members, with my love. I really want to overcome it and live happily, but the hurdle is not easy to be blown-away.

There are times that I just lay there on my bed and just think of all the people who have wandered away from me. I remember all of the people that I have wandered away from. And then I wonder, will there ever be a time when they might reconnect? Not just for a 'blast from the past', but a real reconnection, a rejoining, a resumption of the friendship routine as if the split had never happened. Probably not. When I left Vietnam, I left so many good people behind. I left a great soulmate - my drinky and coffee buddy - with the absolute belief that nothing would change, that we would continue to talk and visit and share a rare closeness of heart. Of course, that didn't happen as distance, time and space created an inevitable chasm between intention and reality. I lost my dearest person for a while there to the rigors of depression; I wasn't there for her, though I thought we knew each other so well and that I could read her mind without any sign, any word. I couldn't...

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