Friday, August 6, 2010

I travel about 40 min to and from work everyday, in the morning with hubby and in the afternoon with my colleague and her hubby. Well the hubby, L, usually listens to some crazy local radio station every day. It's not too bad but not great either. So this week he decided that he had had enough of the radio and popped in a mixed CD. The music was pleasant enough, but then a familiar song came up and I caught myself gasping when it started. I blew it off as a once off, but then it happened again the following day. I was a bit astonished at my reaction to the same song on two different occasions and when I thought about it, I realized why my breath kept being taken away.

When I started high school I fell in love with Brian McKnight and any tune that came from his mouth. I remember sitting in home room every morning singing his songs to my friends in the class. I loved every word in 'Back at one' and it became my theme song for that year.

Well this obsession carried on for a few years and when I was in grade 10 I met the man I was sure I was going to marry. He was exactly what I hoped for in a guy (even at the tender age of 15) and we were 'meant' to be together always. Our relationship was rocky because there were people who just did not approve of me in his life and my dad was dead set on the fact that I was not old enough to have a boyfriend. We got into trouble for each other and fought for our relationship for over two years, until I made the mistake to cheat on him. In my defence, I was still a child and longed for adventure. The worst part was that he did not find out about my infidelity...until I told him a few months later, out of guilt.
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