Little Manhattan

Maybe not everything is supposed to last forever. Certain things are like sky writing, like a really beautiful thing that lasts for a couple moments and then - you know? -- Leslie to Gabe (Little Manhattan)

Everybody has a first love.

The first time you knew the difference between having a crush and loving someone. When you can't sleep at night thinking of her. When her mere presence gave you butterlies in your stomach. Wait a minute, that sounds just like having a crush. Ahh when you're young, there was a thin line that separated crush from love.

Little Manhattan is about "falling in love" when you're in your pre-teens. When you go through the rough and tumble of love that in due time as you get older, you realise is just normal in life.

Indeed, what joy it was to be young and pure, untainted by the world's pains and life's stumbles. Today, older but not necessarily wiser, I am having a difficulty finding ladies attractive, much more start falling in love after countless false starts.

And sometimes, my mind wanders to that first love. How could she be doing now? Is she married? Separated? Children? Does she still blush a beet red on the most trivial of things? So many things have happened, so many changes in all these years, but I still do remember her.

Whatsoever, life goes on.

Damnit, this is what happened when you can't sleep and throw in a DVD and watch it all alone through the night. LoL!!