Speaking of the one that got away, but not really, I was only in the seventh grade.
Do you remember the first person you absolutely fell in love with at first sight.
Yeah, this article isn’t about her.
This article is about the first one you couldn’t do anything about.
As I learn more about writing I am finding out the things I know really don’t come from reading the original book, play or poem. Like osmosis or something I have picked up bits of knowledge from reading ‘other’ stuff that makes reference ‘to’ the original work.
Makes me wonder how many people take the time to read the original book, play or poem now-a-days vs. taking a Myna approach.
For example, I like reading about Roman history, who doesn’t, amirite!
There’s this one guy Sempronius Densus, look him up.
Roman history has been recorded quite well and written and rewritten quite a bit. So I know some historical facts about Julius Caesar. From crossing the Rubicon, fixing the calendar and his death on the Ides of March.
And his friend Brutus.
One of the literary references that you will see when you read enough are those three famous little words…
“Et tu, Brute!”
They are recorded history, but we remember them from a writer, good ole’ Bill Shakespeare. His play titled, “Julius Caesar”, just picked up a copy from SparkNotes and their series, ‘No Fear Shakespeare’. Act 3, scene 1.
What does that have to do with a crush in the seventh grade? I’m getting to that.
Love. “It is a many splendored thing”, you’re just never ready for it and no one ever explains it to you quite right.
Another thing that Mr. Shakespeare and ‘a whole lotta’ writers write about is unrequited love. Where a person pine’s away after another.
What is unrequited love? (Should be called un-re-quit-it)
Using a ‘handy-dandy’ Wikipedia quote,
“Unrequited love or one-sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved. The beloved may not be aware of the admirer’s deep and strong romantic affection, or may ( mine: be aware of it, yet) consciously reject it. The Merriam Webster Online Dictionary defines unrequited as “not reciprocated or returned in kind.”[1]
For example…
She had these blue eye’s, wore ‘soft fuzzy sweaters’ and was two years older than me, and this is important, sat in the same desk that I did in English class, me in 1st hour her in 3rd hour.
I was just standing at my locker when I saw her for the first time, coming down the hall, with her arms folded over her books in front of her… ever stop dead in your tracks?
In the words of Eddy Murphy, from the movie ‘Life’, “Boy you looking a little too hard, just look occasional like, glance over…”.
She was with a girl that was in my class and as they walked by she looked at me…
and BAM! those blue eye’s!
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