The One That Got Away

This was not the way we were meant to end up; we were supposed to get our hard-earned

actually brought man tears to my eyes.

But a kiss with regrets is certainly better than none at all.

made me realise that she didn’t really love me. And that maybe, truthfully, I’d been in love more with the idea of her than the reality all along.

What is it about people getting all philosophical, instead of just getting on with the basics of being happy?

I should never have pressured you into being who you aren’t,’ I continue. But equally I should never have pretended not to care about the things that mean so much to me.

I believe people can like each other and want to spend time with each other . . . but all that stuff about being together forever? I don’t know, it feels a bit like a work of fiction, a lie we tell ourselves to make life more palatable. A way of explaining the kind of temporary chemical craziness that comes over people when they get together. It’s just molecules breaking apart and forming new bonds, it’s hormones playing tricks on us to fool us into keeping the species alive, and sooner or later it wears off.

I drew the line at lizard people and alien abductions.