Brooklyn Bridge

Ali stood in the darkness of the Brooklyn Bridge, wondering when things would get easier. She wanted more out of life, but everything just seemed to get harder and harder. All she wanted was for things to get easier. She wanted to be happy and she thought that the only way she could be happy was to fall in love with someone.

As she stood there in the darkness, the cool breeze whipping her hair back and forth, she wondered if such a thing existed anymore. She watched couples holding hands walk by, young and old. Her friends had found the love of their lives, but she was alone in a big city. She no longer wanted to be alone. She was sick of it, but she wanted love. And love wasn’t what the guys wanted from her. All they wanted was sex. It wasn’t fair! Is that what life in 2021 was all about? Was love no longer something people cared about? Was it worth it to go by morals instead of desires? Should she give up and do what she wanted? Maybe love would come out of what the guys wanted from her. But if she did that, she would be doing something that was not her. She wondered if she should become a different person, to get what she wanted.

As she contemplated if she would ever find love, she turned to head back to her apartment and ran straight into someone. She went to apologize, but found herself speechless, when she saw the handsome tall dark headed man standing right in front of her. She stared into his dark brown eyes and couldn’t speak.

The man kinda just laughed and asked if she was alright. They got to talking and soon he asked for her phone number.

Everyone always told Ali that she would find what she was looking for at the most unexpected moment. She understood that, but when she had been single for so long, it just seemed like it would never happen. Tinder did not work for her, no other dating apps worked, and especially not meeting guys in person. She became the outgoing person she is today, just to be able to find a guy. It was never to be popular or to find friends, it was to get the guys that the popular girls could get.

Ali soon found out that being popular did not get her guys like she thought it would. All it did was bring her pain and suffering. She lost more people than she would have if she had just stayed the quiet girl that kept to herself. That night on the bridge she was thinking of going back to that person again, because everything was just too hard to handle.

Three years ago she had had a dream that she ran into a guy that she instantly connected with and he asked for her number. She hoped that the dream would someday come true, but had lost all hope. The moment that she ran into the guy on the Brooklyn Bridge that night, she knew the dream wasn’t just a dream anymore. It was the reality she had been longing for. It was the hope she had been searching for. The peace she had been dreaming of for years.

That night would change her life forever. She would finally find someone that she would fall in love with and he would fall in love with her as well. It wasn’t just a one way street. She had experience falling for guys that did not fall for her. It killed her to watch her best friend fall for someone else when she had fallen for him. Life was hard, but she got through it. She never gave up on one day finding the man she was meant to be with and at the least expected moment, she found exactly what she was looking for and wanted for so long.

If she had never become popular, she would have never felt comfortable enough to be on the Brooklyn Bridge by herself in the first place. She would have never met this guy and would have never had the fun exciting life she was designed to have with this man. Her life was finally everything she wanted it to be! She finally knew what true happiness was.