We Experienced A Short Story That I Will Read Over And Over Again

Before I met you, I didn’t know that I could fall in love within two days. I did not know that I would carry your caresses in my heart for a very long time. Many months and kilometers separated us and those two days became a short story that I read over and over again.

Our story was full of truths, full of moments when we looked each other deeply in the eye at night. Full of hugs under the covers and naked bodies in the morning light.

It is a story that we told each other in a few hours, during which we barely managed to find out each other’s life story.

“It is almost a law: Eternal love is the shortest.”

Mario Benedetti

A short story in which you showed me the real me

Despite the time that has passed, I have not forgotten that you were my accomplice for a moment. The person I could trust.

You supported and understood me at a time when no one else did. You reminded me that I could live, that I could cry, and that I could feel. You made me realize that I had to be myself. 

You opened my eyes to a world that until then I had only seen through the eyes of other people, a world that they had drawn for me, but which had nothing to do with me at all. You gave me strength even when you were no longer by my side.

“Do not seduce me, because if we seduce each other, we will never be able to forget it.”

Mario Benedetti

We made up thousands of stories in our dreams. As we talked and laughed, the distance between us narrowed. The oceans that lay between us couldn’t stop us.

What i learned from you

You can fall in love within two days. And you can learn a lot of things in two days. Two bodies can discover each other and reveal many feelings.

In two days I learned from you that we have to lead our lives the way we want without thinking about what other people want. I learned that when we really focus, we see a lot of things and people that we wouldn’t otherwise notice.

You showed me what joy is, what laughter is, what a long, big hug is, and what it means for someone to really appreciate me. You taught me to recognize what I want, what I want and above all, to know what I don’t want. 

A story without end

Now I know we won’t be together, at least not for now.

I don’t know what will happen in the future, whether we will find a place and time together to hug again. And to be able to look each other in the eye and understand each other without having to say a single word.

If I see you, I will always remember the story of our two days together and how we walked under the trees. I will remember what we told each other and what we could never talk about. 

I will always remember your last words: “This is not the last time.”

You said that before an ocean separated us for a longer time than we expected. An ocean of time that blurred our history, our hugs and the looks we’d exchanged through all the hours and days without you.

“I wait for you when I look at the night sky: you there, me here.”

Mario Benedetti

I often ask myself whether our story is over and my heart just doesn’t want to see it. But it’s not possible that fate brought you to me just to take you away from me and prevent us from ever feeling each other again.

Perhaps we will write another story and dare to rewrite a story that had no end. Or maybe everything will come to an end here, because it should just be like that and because other things have to happen that we are not aware of.

Only time can whisper our story to us. 

I want you in my life in whatever way, as long as you’re around. I want us to listen to each other, get to know each other and I want our trust in one another to grow with every second we spend together.

“My strategy is, I don’t know how, or under what pretext, to achieve that you need me one day.”

Mario Benedetti