A Second Chance

When she walked out on me, I thought it was the end of my life. We had been going out together for five years now and I have just saved enough to buy a car. I had planned my whole life with her as part of it. We had known each other from school days and I had never for a moment thought of the possibility of having to live without her. But it happened. Suddenly she met a man from overseas and decided to leave with him. She just rang to, say goodbye – no explanation.

It took me a long while to get over it. I kept hoping that she would appear as suddenly as she had disappeared. I kept asking myself what I had done wrong and what the foreigner had that I did not. I came up with a lot of stupid ideas of getting even. The foremost thought in my mind was suicide. I thought that if I killed myself, then she would be guily all her life. I got rid of that thought and then started drinking heavily. I thought that if I drank long enough I would just die and that would be a relief.

In my anguish an old friend came to see me. He was Singh, my childhood neighbour. It seemed that he had met my sister who had confided everything about my problem to him. He was aghast when he saw the state that I was in. He walked in and took my bottle and threw it against the wall, I was in despair and broke into tears. He hugged me and calmed me down. “Sam,”he said,”I have come to take you somewhere.” I was happy for his company and went with him in his car to Changi beach.

We sat on a beach and talked the whole night.He convinced me that she was not worth dying for. I was comforted and thanked him. I apologised to him for not having kept in touch with him. I had cut off from all my friends after I met Kathy. I had reasoned that she was all I needed.

A month or so later, my sister introduced me to Cindy. I was not attracted to her at first. She was a quiet person who seemed to let me talk all the time. It took me some time to understand her and like her. Within a year our friendship developed rapidly and I saw how small Kathy was in comparison with Cindy. Soon we got married and started living life as it was meant to be.

A few years later a friend who had gone to the USA to study came back to me with shocking news. He said that he saw Kathy performing as a strip tease dancer in a sleazy bar. He was sure it was her. Well I am glad that I had not married a woman with that kind of tendency.

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