Here is a short fiction story I wrote about a crush over this girl named Matilda. .
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Have you ever Experienced Unrequited Love?
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Here is a short fiction story I wrote about a crush over this girl named Matilda. .
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Yep! It can be very intense! As a teen, I was almost passing out for lack of oxygen because of thinking too intensely about the girl I had a crush on.
Bella
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I don't do the unrequited love thing. If someone wasn't interested, I quickly lost interest in them. What's the point of pining over someone who couldn't care less about you? Seriously. Adios. It's a waste of time and emotional energy that could be better applied elsewhere. I want a return on my investment. Next!
George1959
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At the university. Three years with a fellow student. It ended during a train ride from Amsterdam back to Germany. Such is life.
But I had a male fellow student (handsome and witty) who fell in love with a young saleslady of a department store. She didn't even pay attention to him. On the other hand a female fellow student and former goldsmith fell in love with this man but he didn't requite it. She was not such good looking, but I noticed that she by the help of cosmetics and fashion was succesful to become more pretty. He didn't care. I liked her, but she was not the least interested in me.
Love is a very strange thing. We have a saying in German, which may sound rude, but it goes this way: "Wo die Liebe hinfällt ... Und wenn sie auf einen Misthaufen fällt". (Where love is falling ... and if it is falling on a dungheap).
But I had a male fellow student (handsome and witty) who fell in love with a young saleslady of a department store. She didn't even pay attention to him. On the other hand a female fellow student and former goldsmith fell in love with this man but he didn't requite it. She was not such good looking, but I noticed that she by the help of cosmetics and fashion was succesful to become more pretty. He didn't care. I liked her, but she was not the least interested in me.
Love is a very strange thing. We have a saying in German, which may sound rude, but it goes this way: "Wo die Liebe hinfällt ... Und wenn sie auf einen Misthaufen fällt". (Where love is falling ... and if it is falling on a dungheap).
George1959
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Bella, it's hope. The hope that the beloved person will change the mind and fall in love with the lover too. But did this ever happen?
George1959
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I like your story for the subtle description of this girl and the very surprising ending with "her rotting, set of long and uneven, green-stained, bucktoothed teeth". Now THIS is literature.
Beezer
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What's that old expression?
"A woman marries a man hoping to change him. A man marries a woman hoping she'll never change."
What's that old expression?
"A woman marries a man hoping to change him. A man marries a woman hoping she'll never change."
MaidMarian
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Yes… or maybe. What is love anyway? I’m really not sure to this day.
Paco Dennis
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I have had intense lust for someone, and they didn't notice that I even existed. Tough feeling to have.
George1959
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I think a lot of people are asking this question and haven't found the answer yet.
fuzzybuddy
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Yup. I've been jilted. I loved someone, and that someone said, "Sorry, I don't". It wasn't fun at the time, but now, I appreciate the honesty.
Timewise 60+
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I think many, especially the young, think love is being physically attracted to someone. It is not! Especially when the other person does not feel the same.
What it is, is having a very special friendship with someone, coupled with both people being very physically attracted to each other...this combination has great possibilities for a long, loving, relationship!
What it is, is having a very special friendship with someone, coupled with both people being very physically attracted to each other...this combination has great possibilities for a long, loving, relationship!
All through junior & senior high school, I had a crush on a young man who didn't look twice at me. Once out of school, he invited me out, but I had a boyfriend - so, I had to turn him down. That relationship didn't last, and I always wondered what might have been if I'd gone out with the old crush.
Thanks! Good to know that the story is entertaining.
Mr. Ed
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Unrequited means not returning love? That will be my dad, he said he loved me but his capacity for love was himself.
LoveTulips
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Nope, the times that I really liked someone (not loved) and dated and then they dropped me, my whole attitude was your loss, buddy.
Nathan
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There's "puppy love", crushes and then there is Limerence. Limerence - Wikipedia
Tish
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No, can't say I have.
JustDave
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We know it when we feel it, but we are still not sure what it is because so many well meaning people will say, "Yeah, but that's not [real] love." They add qualities to the emotion, often because they were told by others how to differentiate real love from love.
I finally gave up trying to make sense out of the conditions society arbitrarily assigns to love. If someone takes your breath away, your knees get shaky, and you have that explosive heady experience of joy in the presence of someone, that's love. Sure, it may be for the wrong reasons. It may be fleeting. You may even be aware that it's a disaster waiting to happen, but I accept the feeling for what it is, an emotion that is a part of the human condition.
However, what you do with it makes a big difference. Proceed thoughtfully. It's an emotion, and while our emotions are important, they need to be tempered with reason. But by all means, enjoy the emotion.
Some might say I just haven't figured love out yet. Maybe they're right. Or maybe they're not right. How do you define "right?"
Thanks, for you candid thought. For most of my life, I've asked the same question, myself. I finally came up with an answer that makes sense to me.
Interesting perspective! Here is how the Bible describes love.
1 Corinthians 13:
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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JustDave
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You and your Bible will have to answer that for yourself.
But it was a fun story. Congratulations on a interesting piece of writing.
Thanks for the positive feedback on the story. Much appreciated. 
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My apologies for the annoying impression of asking a question and answering simultaneously. I distinctly remember having deleted the question and the link to the story, and only having posted the biblical quote because both together constitute a question and assertion, and would be understandably annoying. How both appeared anyway, is totally beyond me. Perhaps my aging brain is starting to betray me. Again my apologies.
BTW:
My apologies for the annoying impression of asking a question and answering simultaneously. I distinctly remember having deleted the question and the link to the story, and only having posted the biblical quote because both together constitute a question and assertion, and would be understandably annoying. How both appeared anyway, is totally beyond me. Perhaps my aging brain is starting to betray me. Again my apologies.
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