Love hurts

Let me tell you a story. Falling in love is just so amazing, I wonder how it moves people into doing what they normally wouldn't do. Well, in the past days I was a witness to a love story unfolding right before my very own eyes. The characters are normal people; my room mate and his girlfriend. The situation is this, my roommate is with this girl for about three years now. At first I thought he really does not love the girl, especially when he talks about his flings but then the events that unfolded this past days kind of reminded me of things that have happened to another person in a different stage of my life.

Here in the Philippine Military Academy, we are the stars. When we walk, people look at us, they see us as if we're some kind of movie icons and mind you they ask us to be in a picture with them. Well, perhaps it is the uniform, maybe the PMA "thing" but this is the thing that kind of makes our life here a little bit interesting. When we see beautiful ladies roaming around our Camp and then ask for their numbers it is very seldom that they refuse and often times it is only because they are attached to someone else. So to put it simply, as cadets we are heart throbs. And so the story goes that my room mate, who is also a cadet, has had his share of being sought after by ladies. Of course, when loneliness sets in, we just can't help it, its there laid in a silver platter. But it is not to say that we are some maniacs who simply take advantage of the prestige we are accorded as cadets. And this is the point I am to drive at as I go on with this story.

The downside of being a cadet is when we have to bear the loneliness of being far away. We try to be the best that we can be despite of the separation from the people that love us, the people that support us, and the people that we want to be with. And this is what happened. My room mate had to bear the loneliness to be distant from his loved one. The conflict begins when his girlfriend eventually meets up with another guy from her place. Well, I could say that the guy was simply willing to listen. And then it happened. In one of the letters of my roommate's girlfriend she said that she went on "bonding" with this guy. This word actually caused so much stir that it lead to a series of sleepless nights for my roommate and also for me and my other roommates who just had to listen to his unending sonata of frustrations over his seemingly troubled relationship. And then finally, in one phone call, my room mate broke down-- he cried, as in he cried like a little baby. I wonder how intense his feeling thatit caused him to cry. At that point, I believed him when he said that he really loved his girlfriend. My roommate is some guy who has all the potential of being great at what he does. I mean we are to become soldiers, our spirits are solid rock, but then at the end of if all, love will melt that spirit. You see, here in the prestigious Philippine Military Academy, when the rest of the world thinks that we are some brat who waste the government's money, we are human beings. Although people may perceive as to be unfaithful, and our girlfriends always has this notion that we go around dating whoever it is that comes our way inside the halls of Fort del Pilar, we are loving individuals. Just like the rest of those who belong to the male species, we feel the same love that they feel, we are able to offer the same love that they are able to offer, and we feel devastated just like the way others are devastated when their relationship fails. Yes, love hurts and it hurts bad even from where we are...