• Forever

    Forever. What a word. I used to believe in forever. Forever lasting love, best friends forever, living forever. But there is no such thing as forever.
    Yet, there is such a thing as dead for forever. People die and never come back, no one can be briefly dead for a time being.
    When you die, there is no happily ever after. No prince charming to wake you from your eternal slumber. When death has you, he will not let you go.
    When I believed in forever, life was so much simpler. When my father died and my mother told me, ‘He’ll be in your heart forever.’ I believed her but I very often forgot about him. I was such a naive child.
    As I grew older, my fairytale fantasies of forever flourished into everyday reality.
    When my best friend, Jessie, told me, ‘We will be best friends forever’, I again believed in forever. But death took her away as well, leaving me without a best friend.
    When Kyle told me we would have ‘Forever lasting love’, my fairytale fantasy came true. An evil dragon would imprison me in a castle, cast a spell over me, and swallow the key. Knight Kyle would come to my rescue, wake me from my spell, and kill the dragon. In the end Kyle left me for another girl.

    Forever is a fantasy that parents plant into their children’s minds to protect them from the pain of loss. How can we believe in forever? You tell me.