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Because there is no future, we broke up

"I'm sorry, us being together makes me feel lost, like I can't see the future ......"

By Stephane PerezPublished 2 years ago 7 min read
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"I'm sorry, us being together makes me feel lost, like I can't see the future ......"

She knocked down this sentence, sat in her seat in silence for a long time, and then clicked send.

She sighed lightly, not sure if she was happy to finally end this long long distance run or sighing that they had lost each other after all.

He and she met in the network, and eventually disappeared in the network.

Suddenly I remembered two years ago, when he and she were still unrelated to each other in a sea of people. A friend recommended a chatting application to her, and at that time she made a disgusted sound: "You say this should not be the kind of men and women chatting, and then that ...... kind of application, right?"

For her disgust, her friend rolled her eyes, and eventually, under her friend's strong request, she still downloaded the app.

The system is designed with a unified avatar, anonymous chatting, and the system will help you match chatting partners according to your interests, while protecting the user's privacy. After the experience, she found the app quite interesting and would browse it from time to time.

This day, she was lying in bed, bored to brush her phone, when suddenly "ding dong" a crisp sound, is the application's unique message alert, at that time she would not know, this crisp sound broke her original calm life.

"Hello." It was a message from a stranger.

The system prompted a 99% match, which piqued her interest, and she ghostly tapped out two words, "Hello."

When she realized she had already sent the message, the other party responded, "Hello, I just read your share and found it very interesting, those pictures you took are so beautiful."

She has a habit of saving pictures that look good and sharing them in her own space from time to time.

"Haha." She still felt quite happy to receive the stranger's approval.

"Thank you, it's just a habit to share when you see a nice picture."

"Then you have a pair of eyes to find beauty oh :)"

She looked at the message and gently laughed a little, this person is quite funny, I did not expect that now there are still people send such a long time ago face emoji, thinking that you can tease him, so keep knocking down the second sentence, the third sentence ......

The two people thus began to chat from time to time, she found that their hobbies are so similar, he likes to take pictures, likes to sing, also from time to time he will share the photos he took to her, although they are all mundane trivialities, but she looked at them with great interest, and then they began to say good night to each other every day before going to bed, and share the food they ate before eating.

Although he is sometimes a bit wooden, but the person is very sincere. Slowly, she found herself enjoying chatting with him, and would look forward to his messages, and sometimes he did not reply in time, she would even worry if he was sick or if something had happened.

Watching her hold her phone all day, smiling like a flower when she received a message, and waiting for a message like someone owed her millions, her friend voiced her doubts: "You're not in love, are you?"

"Huh?" She froze a little, she never thought about whether she was in love, she only knew that she liked the feeling of talking with him.

With this reminder from her friend, she also started to think if she was in love with him.

Yes, she liked him. Later on, the two got together in a natural way.

It's just that long-distance relationships are hard.

They are a thousand kilometers apart, and these thousand kilometers divide the two of them in two completely different cities, one warm and one cold.

The scenes they see every day, the things they touch and the people they get along with are two completely different worlds. Even though the internet can temporarily connect the two people, they can't touch each other after all.

Sometimes when she was walking around campus and saw couples walking side by side, she would give a faintly envious look. She would start to think of him and imagine them strolling through the campus side by side like these couples, how happy that would be.

But the anticipation was slightly bitter, because she knew it would be difficult to achieve.

But, long distance love is sweet.

She will never forget when he came to her city without her knowledge, came down to her dorm room, called her and lied to her that he had ordered takeout for her and asked her to come out and pick it up.

She can't forget that she walked out of the dormitory building in her pajamas and saw him walking slowly with a smile in front of the dormitory building.

She couldn't forget the excitement of the May Day holiday, when she ran to his city with her suitcase, she couldn't forget her arrival in his city in the middle of the night, and the light that shone in his eyes when he saw himself at the exit.

At that moment she really wanted to jump into his arms, but in the crowded high-speed train station or shyness suppressed the excitement of the heart. But when he naturally received the suitcase into his own hands, the other hand held her hand in the palm of his hand, tucked into the pocket of the natural and intimate, still let the corners of her mouth can not restrain raised.

She couldn't forget their walking side by side on an empty street, the complacency she felt after whispering for him to put his head down while no one was around and kissing him quickly on the cheek when he wasn't looking, the sweetness with which they looked at each other, the unbridled laughter of triumph after the stolen kiss, and the warmth that lingered in the palm of her hand on a winter night.

However, this love affair was destined to be fruitless, because they were doomed to end from the very beginning.

Whether it was the distant two cities, the opinions of both parents, or the feelings of both of them, they were not strong enough to give up all they had for one party.

Therefore, from the very beginning together, she knew that the romance was stolen from time and would one day have to be returned. The time together over a day, less a day, he and she know that the end has been predetermined, but still deadly persistent, as long as the final step, they will not say the last two words out.

Time is long, but time is also very short, unknowingly has come to the final time.

She was about to graduate, which meant she would stay in her city forever, and he couldn't give it all up to come to her city. In the end, this stolen time came to an end after all.

"Ding!" It was a message from him, and she guessed what was in it without looking: "Well, let's break up."

Well, then let's break up, she just smiled astringently and slowly deleted all his contacts one by one.

We had warmth for each other, but still lost to the future, perhaps in a sunny afternoon years later, will suddenly remember that person's smile, who will know?

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