Saturday, September 24, 2005

Literary meme

I am the girl whose mother didn't want to give up work for and ended up spending the first 7 years of her life with her grandparents until her younger brother came along and her mother decided to quit and wanted her back but who was reluctant to because she had grown to love her gramps so much.

I am the girl who was forced to go home to my parents on weekends when I was young and who ended up crying at 2am and calling her grandpa saying that she wants to go home (her real home that is).

I am the girl who made her mum hate her because of that.

I am the girl who will then wait downstairs for her grandfather to come at 2am to pick her up with her baby pillow which she has had since she was a month old.

I am the girl who still refuses to sleep without that pillow.

I am the girl who loves her gramps more than her parents.

I am the girl who might as well have never known her parents.

I am the girl who was shocked when a boy tried to kiss her in kindergarten and asked him out loud in front of the class Are you trying to kiss me? and made a fool of him without meaning to.

I am the girl who loves eating her prata with sugar-and-curry, who loves eating water egg yolks whole and feeling it burst in her mouth, who eats cubes of cheese with sweet China pears because it's such a refreshing taste.

I am the girl who used to wonder what was the point of everything.

I am the girl who looked at herself in the mirror sometimes and wondered who that person was, who eventually didn't want to look in the mirror anymore.

I am the girl who said many "I love you"s that she didn't mean but who didn't mean to not mean them when she said it.

I am the girl who first held a boy's hand when she was 13 who really only first fell in love when she was 16.

I am the girl who got her heart broken and who never thought she could (or wanted to) love another one again.

I am the girl who will always remember the night when she saw your text on her phone Care to dance? :) and who till now still never regretted saying yes.

I am the girl whom you told your little secrets to on the very first night that we went out, when we were still friends and wondered why you would tell me when I was a complete stranger.

I am the girl who found out later that it was because that was just the way we were going to be and how we still can never wait to tell each other everything.

I am the girl who was thinking This is crazy when you leaned over to kiss me for the first time, and who ended up kissing you back for the next four hours.

I am the girl who rolled in bed with you laughing about the silliest things and ended up crying once because I couldn't believe how happy you make me.

I am the girl whose hand you hold so gingerly as if you're afraid I'd break if you held me too tight.

I am the girl who still kisses you the same way she kissed you the very first time.

I am the girl who wells up at movies and at the thought of having to leave you one day when I die.

I am the girl who would rather you go first so that you don't have to bear with the pain of grief.

I am the girl who would spend all her life travelling and live hand-to-mouth if she had the money and a family who didn't care about education.

I am the girl who think she got a better deal in life than she could have hoped to have.

I am that girl. Who are you?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm that cow who loves you dearly :)

2:38 AM  

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