Why did she ultimately decide (last Monday) to go to A***** instead? One word: boyfriend. (No matter how she tries to deny it, and no matter how many other reasons she tries to give me, I just KNOW that this is the reason behind it all.) I know, I know... She's probably thinking the same thing her brother did way back when. (See paragraph 3) But what in the world is THAT compared to your whole life ahead of you? And we all know that in this day and age, relationships formed that early on in life almost never work out in the end. Is she hanging on to that "almost" loophole in the "almost never" clause? Gimme a break. But what the hell, does anybody ever listen to me?

Whatever.

The same thing happened with my other girlfriend. (Yup, the one that came after the one I mentioned earlier.) For weeks, a certain political party in our college was hounding her like nothing, desperately pleading for her to join their ranks and represent our department. And for weeks, I tried talking her out of it. Bad career move, I said. Not only would it take the life out of her, it would also jeopardize her chances of becoming president of one of our organizations, a dream she had way before those bloodhounds came after her. True enough, everything I said came true. She started missing out on classes, and she started missing out on our organization. Her life was eaten away by politics. (Something which I abhor with a passion here in our country.)

I remember the night before the deadline of her confirmation. It was reliving a nightmare. I couldn't sleep. I made one final desperate salvo: I wrote her a letter, outlining all the arguments that I had made throughout those weeks, giving her the consequences that were bound to follow. I drove off into the country to have some peace of mind. I eventually stopped at a gas station and had a couple hours of sleep and drove back to the city to drop off my letter before she went to class. All in vain. No one listens to me, remember? (God, I looked like shit that day.)