Sunday, February 22, 2009

Shabby may just be Right.

Today is such a.. lazy Sunday.
Sure, I'm studying but at such a leisure pace.
I'm actually rather terrified about my PR exam. Honest!
Have I mentioned I haven't even bought the PR textbook and it's midterms already?
Yeah, bummer.

I have an interesting story for you today.
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There once was a girl. She was a pastor's kid, a nice good girl with a steady boyfriend. She was quite a looker really, attractive and smart with a good heart. Who wouldn't fall for her right? And, she did indeed have her fair share of admirers. Trust me on that.

And there was this one guy. He didn't come from a very rich family, rather, he was only average. Not that good looking, more normal and maybe just a tinche Shabby. He worked at the same company as the girl and had liked her for a long time. Each time he approached her, she would politely turn him down.

One day, a whole bunch of them went out drinking one night after work. They were all pretty tipsy, some even drunk. The girl in our story was one of them who was dead drunk. The guy offered to take her home since he was one of the only sober ones around. The rest didn't object and they left the shop to go on home.

They detoured from the way back to the girls house. He brought her to a motel and right there and then, he took her. She was semiconscious and by the time she woke up the next morning, it was all too late; She had been defiled.

There went her life. There went her dreams. What about her boyfriend? What about her life? Her family? Her future? What was to happen to her? People would surely look down on her now. She was.. a black sheep now. Tained.

But the guy was so sorry after that. He went to the family and apologized; he was so ashamed and sad that he had hurt her so. He just loved her so much. How would he justify his actions when they were just purely out of love? In the end, he proposed to her. He took responsibility.

The girl's boyfriend told her that it would be okay. He would still accept her even after she had been touched by someone else. Things didn't seem so bleak now, did they? I mean, people weren't throwing tomatoes at her at least.

However, she was so torn up inside. She had always believed that the one person that took her, she would marry. It broke her heart to think that because of that, if she chose to stick to her values/morals, she might end up marrying someone she didn't even love. And that she did. She married the guy.

And this is where the story ends.

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Doesn't that just kill you? To have your chance of a happy ending taken away from you. It's a real story by the way. Not a fiction of my imagination, sadly. It always almost makes me cry all the time whenever I hear it. I mean, it just pulls at your heart strings, you know?

And for the record, the guy and the girl are happily married right now with a daughter. She loves him and he loves her more than ever before. Everyone can see that. So, she did make the right choice. Though she never got the chance to marry her rich boyfriend ( who was the son of some jewelers ) she did get her happy ending, though in their case, they did a sort of backward dating.

It just goes to prove that you can learn to love someone.