True Love; the Power of a Single Story.
I never thought love could be that strong to change the course of things. Well, I knew that love can be strong, but not to the extent of transforming bad character. When Alex met Kristen, he was a bad boy. He walked with the bad boys, too. Life to them was about alcohol, women and partying.
In fact, you could never think that Alex could make a turn and become a very different individual. That happening could only mean the sixth wonder of the world. As a matter of fact, it did happen, but at the discretion of Kristen. Until she happened to him, it was life as usual.
Women have this energy that make things happen. I have been thinking lately that there is a lot of energies that our standard curriculum misses out. One of those energies is women. It will take me the next few centuries to research on this type of energy and perhaps not be able to fully explain what it is, before it can be incorporated in our books.
During my time, it took strokes of the cane, frogging, and panel beatings to repair any moral upheaval in me. My father used to address my tiny buttocks instead of my ears. He always insisted that a child’s ears are in the buttocks. It is a science I am yet to comprehend, but it did help massively. I owe what I am today to him.
Fast forward, I realise that sometimes if you want to change a woman, get love and it’s done. What of a man? A woman can do the magic. A woman happened to Alex, and he immediately came back ‘home.’ All the stupidity of boyhood changed. Was it the woman, really? It is worth exploring.
Alex had been having women all along the trail. In fact before he interacted with Kristen, there was another girl called Antonine that influenced him to trick a friend of his into jumping from a cliff down a steep waterfall where he ended up getting injured.
It was the same girl who made him scorn other girls he felt didn’t measure up to her league. So I am discrediting my earlier statement that it was simply a woman who made him change. There was something else: the love. The love from and towards a special woman.
And it was not merely any love. It was true Love. Does true love exist anyway? Alex and Kristen’s story confirms that indeed it does exist. They endured to the very end, even if it meant being separated by death. In fact, a promise Alex made to Kristen, he fulfilled after her death. Wondering how this story is confusing? Let me put it in order.
When Alex met Kristen, he knew she wasn’t like those ladies he had met earlier. She loved church and lived by its principles. She told him from the outset that she desired to be married in the church where her mum had married his dad. Alex saw it as a tall order. One he looked forward to ‘not’ fulfilling.
They started off to a great start, going on dates, hanging out after school, and even helping each other in their academics. They enjoyed each other’s company even though Kristen had warned Alex not to fall in love with her. Nature often takes its course, and that is life as we understand it.
One day, some months into the relationship, Alex bumps into Kristen. They meet unexpectedly. She is frail and unhappy, and Alex wonders what is wrong with his girlfriend.
“I am worn out,” says Kristen, who is avoiding eye contact with Alex.
“Go get some rest. You will get well.” Alex comforts her.
“You don’t understand. I am dying. I have an advanced leukaemia and I am not responding to drugs anymore.” She let those words hit Alex like thunder in his ears.
He was at a loss for words, and all he managed to say was, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I didn’t want to lose you,” Kristen tells him and off she runs, crying.
Thinking that would be the end of it, Alex goes to Kristen’s home and doesn’t leave until she comes to talk to him. He promises to stand with her no matter what. A promise he keeps and even goes a notch higher to fulfil.
Kristen is dying. So, Alex proposes to her and she accepts. They get married in the church she dreamed of. Kristen’s dream gets fulfilled in her lifetime. They fly to the Comoros for their honeymoon, and a short while after their return, Kristen breathes her last.
It has been two years since she passed, and a while back, Alex graduated as a medical doctor. The very promise she gave to Kristen that she would finish medical school, even though before meeting her, he didn’t desire to.
This experience of true love changed Alex. It changed Alex’s parents and, to a greater extent, Kristen’s dad. A whole society touched by a single story of true love. True love to a special kind of woman Alex had never met or seen before.
A single story of true love for a special woman can change the world. If you get lucky to find true love, make it a point to touch the world because only a few get to have the wholesome experience of true love.
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