The Wonderful Life of Mr. WannaB

Ep. 9 - A Foreign Affair

I believe everyone is entitled to two or three true loves in their lifetime. More than that is just plain stupid, too much pain and lack of definition of what true that love really is. A kiss is just a kiss such as a fling, a crush, the hots, passion, is just that. True love, is just true love too, but in a classic upper category. Another classic upper category is a foreign affair. Everyone should have a foreign affair at least once in their lifetime. Not doing so is dying stupid. I had a visit from my foreign affair this week. As always we talked and strolled around Lisbon as two ordinary friends, talked about life, work, family and all the time I wanted to tell him «I still love you». But I know we’ve grown out of love. Though the felling has faded and new feelings have taken it’s place, the memories have not and those, even if for just a few moments, make it real again.

As we came back from diner, he wanted to take me home. I didn’t want that. He wouldn’t come up and I didn’t want the end to come that way. He almost took me home then. We passed by Principe Real, where we kissed in the rain the day we met. He mentioned the street that leads to Praça da Alegria, where we first laid eyes at each other. But I didn’t want him to come down to Praça das Flores. My foreign affair is my foreign friend now. No sex and the Praça, that night… no love and the Praça, that night… just me, with a friendly feeling inside.