The "F" Word

Now that I have your attention  I will tell you first off that YES  I hate the "F"  word you probably thought about when you looked at this blog.  But other than  "I think we could live without this disgusting word "  it would  merit no other discussion for me.

No,  I'm speaking of another word thrown around carelessly.

When I was 5 years old  I went to school with a boy we'll call J.  He just lived down the road from me and my Mama liked him.  He was always nice to my Mama.  She would let him stop by my house for milk and cookies.   We would climb up on the couch with one of those trays and watch cartoons.  You only had  three channels back then (3,8,13).   J  and I  were together all the time.  Before too long (although we didn't know what LOVE was )we were sure we were going to be together  FOREVER.  YEP  that's my word for this blog.  FOREVER !    Well  J  didn't know what being in love would entail.  But he soon found out.  I insisted  that he eat the MUD PIES I made in those cute potpie tin pans (Now we have Microwaveable ones).  We'd go to the dirt pile and I'd start baking.  Poor J would eat those dirty things and tell me what a good cook I was....it's a thousand wonders it hadn't killed him...but he's proof positive that a little dirt don't kill nobody.LOL  When we learned how to write  we took crayons and wrote J and P FOREVER  on the brick wall behind my house.  He and I remained friends all through high school.  We often laughed about our young days growing up,  he never forgot my mudpies.

When I became a teen-ager  I fell in LOVE with a classmate .  He and I  went everywhere together.  We sat side by side in all of our classes,  we went to all the ballgames together, and he spent  all of his time with me.  We  wrote FOREVER on our notebooks.  We went all through High school and never shared one kiss,  but in our minds we loved each other at one time,  but as we grew he started seeing another girl and it was as if FOREVER had never been placed on those school book pages and little notes to one another,  and the bindings of our notebooks.

Many more FOREVERS transpired in my life from a child to an adult.  When I was 34  I was sure I had found true love.  I married a man I thought I would be with FOREVER.  We had a beautiful little girl,  and at four years old  our worlds fell apart.  Another woman promised HIM FOREVER....she lied.  But it was too late to save us.

My teen-age daughter makes friends easily.   She will often speak of friends who are dating.  I see the little notes on her notebook that says  so -and -so  LOVE FOREVER.  That got me to thinking.  We were talking about how young these kids are (And as shocked as I was that these teens are having sex,  I was more shocked that these young girls think thier relationship is going to last FOREVER.  )  One day she came home and said she wasn't friends with this guy because he cheated on a friend of hers.  I just had to add my 2cents worth and say  she'd better get use to it...she's so young.  Then she read me something off her space that talked about a girl who killed herself over a boy and I thought how sad....a life destroyed because someone promised FOREVER. People will even KILL for LOVE  because they want it to last FOREVER.

Who would think that one word  could bring so much HAPPINESS and so much PAIN.  Lives are changed FOREVER  by a simple little  "F" word...that seldom offers what it promises.

ANY FOREVER STORIES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE?