If he just opens his eyes, he would have noticed her.

If he just opens his eyes, he would have noticed her.

But he didn’t.

He never really has opened his eyes to see what’s in front of him. He has never noticed the disappointment in her eyes when he didn’t look her in the eyes when they were talking. Goes the same when she was glowing from within when she was telling something funny to make him laugh. He never really looked her in the eyes. Her eyes that said everything about how she felt.

He didn’t want to face the fact that he was taking her for granted. Spoken words can mean so much, but a knife cuts on two sides. Maybe those words were sincerely spoken from his heart but without action to give those words its meaning, it will just word in the end. Just words echoing in her ears which slowly made her feel hopeless and insecure about herself. She didn’t want to give up on something in which she knew had great potential to thrive into even something more greater. She never wanted to give up because she never even has considered it as an option. But lately, giving up is all she is heading to, even though she tried hard to withhold herself from even thinking about it.

Her nights became more restless and tears were more insight than her smiles. He had no clue until she talked to him about it. Promises were made and she was successfully being reassured for a couple of days before her flood of tears came by again during nights. It was tiring, exhausting to a point where she looked blankly at the ceiling, wondering how this all could have happened.

She traced back the footsteps in their relationship and in doing so, she tried to find out what exactly went wrong.

What could have gone wrong? What could possibly have gone wrong?

We say life has its ups and downs, just like relationships have theirs. In order to live, we simply have to be alive.
What makes a relationship work in the very first place? Same thing.

It needs to be alive.

Without it, there are no ups and downs. It can make us skip a heartbeat when it feels too good to be true. But when the heart rate monitor shows a straight line, a line going perfectly straight from A to B, it means it has no progression whatsoever. When we don’t grow in life, then life will pass by us in return. Without progression in a relationship, it will get stuck at some point, be it in the form of excessive comfort with each other which can lead to taking granted of. It’s not merely alive, just hanging on a thin thread, dangling between a better future or a painful farewell.

If he just opens his eyes, he would have noticed her.

From the girl who rambles through life