Doors
Let me let you into a little well-known secret about girls who are born in my mold.
Our doors are never completely closed. We say the door is completely closed, but nah… we don't usually tutup ketat-ketat.
You see, people like minishorts believes in many second chances. We've gone through times and times where we've seen, that the sweetest success often comes after the conquering of an extremely difficult-to-climb mountain. In that sense, yes, I'm a pretty forgiving person, both towards myself, and towards the people in my life.
I had a conversation with a high school friend who's currently undergoing a relationship estrangement right now.
Him: I wish my girlfriend were like you now?
Me: Like me? What's so nice about me?
Him: Giving second chances. That's what you're doing.
Me: Second chances? Oh no. Not second chances. I'm not really dishing things out. Its just I don't believe in closing doors.
Him: She's closed the doors.
Me: How'd you know that?
Him: The way she's said things.
Me: You think so only. Maybe she didn't close the doors. Let me tell you a thing about girls, the doors aren't ever closed. At least. If I know your girlfriend from the short conversations I used to have with her a long time ago, I don't think she's the type to close the doors completely. In fact, I think she's a softer person than I am.
Him: You're really a girl, you're soft hearted.
Me: OF course I'm a girl. I can't be a guy, can I? I'm not really soft-hearted. I'm just human.
Him: Hmmm…?
Me: Like you're human? You know she's hurting you too, but you still want her back? That's human. Its something God gave us, I guess. That capacity to forgive, and to forget, and to overcome boulders.
Him: Deep…
Me: Me ah… crazy already. It's MY YEAR lah… year of the Monkey. You grow up when you hit two dozen years on earth.
Him: So? You're saying her door's not locked.
Me: She's human. The locks won't be there forever anyway. Sometimes, all you have to do is knock on the door… a few times… be sincere in your persistence.
It's true. Doors are hardly locked, unless you really fade into oblivion. Of course, you're not supposed to pry on a temporarily-locked door with crowbars, or kick apart a closed door. All it usually takes, are sincere gestures of *knock knock*. Girls like me, we will usually ask, 'Who's there?'
And you've just got to take it from there. Simple.
November 15th, 2004 at 1:05 am
hmm…how true.
November 15th, 2004 at 1:27 am
What’s the point of pretending to shut the door in the first place if you don’t really mean it? I don’t know if girls usually shut it and expect knockings to come… but once she slams the door, consider it shut.
November 15th, 2004 at 1:31 am
Lock up the door and throw away the keys. Save all the troubles.
November 15th, 2004 at 1:43 am
yea. shouldn’t close the door in the first place. and during the first few knocks, don’t drive us away if you really don’t mean to. because who knows when the knocker walks off, you’ll regret later! i know girls generally love to play hard-to-get. but know your limits, guys have their patience, too. hehe. my two cents’ worth.
November 15th, 2004 at 1:44 am
hehe.
DARREN … you must really go and read Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
November 15th, 2004 at 11:07 am
Men from Venus. Women from Mars.
November 15th, 2004 at 11:08 am
My money and time are better spent on other useful thing.
November 15th, 2004 at 11:14 am
on reflection, you will realise shutting the door has its advantages. locking it may even be better and throwing it away allows you to look forward. darren may be forthright but he means well.
November 15th, 2004 at 3:34 pm
ehehe…
i’m just giving a tip to a friend lah…
November 15th, 2004 at 3:38 pm
What door? I don’t see a door.
November 15th, 2004 at 4:55 pm
Nice entry! You hit the truth.
November 15th, 2004 at 5:05 pm
as you see… girls are like this… men are like that… its a very basic difference.
November 16th, 2004 at 8:59 am
yes, but don’t make too much of venus and mars, minishorts. there is a place for everything but reality sometimes dictates otherwise.
November 16th, 2004 at 11:31 pm
well. well? well.
i see.
January 14th, 2005 at 11:08 pm
I had been knocking for 3 months. The door opened abit, but too small for me to enter the door.