#09-06-14

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Peter Pringle - The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian

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The three people I have loved.

B.R.

It feels like a lifetime ago. We grew up together and matured together; experiencing the joys of becoming a teenager. There was never a dull moment. We were the best of friends, and we only came as a pair. Naturally as we grew, we tested the barriers of friendship to try something more. Just as easily as we experimented with each other, we fell apart. You lost your balance between pleasure and friendship. I became nothing more than a object, and communication disappeared from our relationship. When I realized it was not easy to let go, I tried holding on to what we had. The friendship had disappeared somewhere along the way; and I had to let you go to respect myself. I’ll always be fond of those memories, and the way you taught me that relationships can break down without reason.

M.K

Well that’s what I would call a rollercoaster. Dating three times, lost my innocense to you, experienced just about every emotion with you. You taught me forgiveness. I hated the other girls, I loved your teasing, I hated your impatience and constant need for attention. You were everything I loved and everything i hated all at once. You were my growth and experience over five years. The best and worst thing to happen to me. There were times when I hated you. Hated you more than anything. You’ve put me in so many awful situations. But you’ve always been there. Those arms I can run to. Always the dickhead player with a new girl each week. Always the guy I know will support me. Always the guy who I know I can love. Always going to be fighting. Always going to be loving. I hate you so much for so many reasons, but I’ll always love you because together we are us.

B.P.

Jesus fucking christ you broke me. And for so long I thought it was all planned, and that you loved seeing me in pain. You showed me how people can become whole with another, and empty without them. You truly showed me love. Passion over the year, and dedication to each others lives. You were the most interesting, funny, intelligent, selfless, humble and wise person I knew. From the moment when we first snuck out to the bridge across the pond and sat for three hours, to the phone calls every day until 3am discussing nothing at all. You came at the perfect time, and made me live life more than I knew was possible. I went to sleep imagining you were beside me. You were my other half, and we balanced each other out perfectly. There came a point where something changed. It only took a week and we were done. The spark left faster than it came. We had a brilliant year together, ending with us sitting in each others arms at midnight on the steps outside your room; knowing it would the last time we held each other. That was the first and last time I saw you cry. Although I thought I knew your eyes inside and out, I didn’t know how much pain could be found in just one stare. The post-love breakdown was something I’ll never forget. It took two years till I could hear your name without feeling my eyes swelling up. Two years is a long time to feel that much loss. Two years of growth, self discocery and acceptance. Two years without you. Two years and I am able to say without a doubt that you were the best thing to happen to me.

The three people I have loved are the three ways I have learnt. The three experiences which have brought me to where I am. The three people who have taught me about love, loss, lust and loneliness.

"Funny isn’t it, how the people we love, and the people that love us are so different… For the people we love, we would do anything for, to get a smile, or even a nod in return… While for the people that love us, they are the ones that go mostly unrecognised, unloved, but yet, they continue to love us for all we are worth…"