When we first got together, she promised, “I
will give everything I have and do everything I can to bring you an exciting
and successful relationship.”
But she left me after two and a half years.
When we first lay in bed, she said, “I have
loved you all my life and to be given this fantastic opportunity and to be with
such a truly great man is a dream come true.”
But now she lies with another.
Someone from her hometown said, “I grew up
with her. She is known around here as ‘Mochi’. We used to play with her in the car park or
behind the school. I was in her class at
secondary school and when the teacher asked what she wanted to do when she grew
up, she just said that she wanted to marry William.”
And yet she has just remarried. At the wedding she said that she would give
everything, give her life, for her new husband.
A short time after we got together, when I
was worried by her flirtation with another man, she complained, “It just shows
you how distrustful the world is now – the gossip and speculation that goes
on. I’ve just landed my dream man – the
man I’ve loved all my life.”
Yet now her friends say that she was never
happy in our relationship. How could she
have been when I didn’t buy her all the things she wanted?
When some people speculated that she might
be happier with another man, she said, “There is not a place I could be in this
world right now where I’d be happier in my married life and personal life.”
When I think back now, there were a few hints
that she wouldn’t stay forever. Six
months into our relationship, when everything was going well, she said, “For
me, whatever I do with the rest of my life, to marry William is the
ultimate. I’m hopefully going to be
attractive for the next 15 to 20 years but to have married William and been
with him is an incredible honour.”
And, “I don’t see William as a stepping
stone. I want to be here as long as I
can.”
During the marriage, a journalist said,
“William is lucky to have this girl as wife.
She gives the marriage purpose, belief, conviction.”
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Be careful what you say. Don’t let your mouth run away with you. If you make promises you cannot keep then your
words will later seem hollow and people will feel betrayed.
The quotes above are mostly real, but I
changed them slightly – from football management to marriage. I am a big fan of Celtic, a Scottish football
club. Our manager has just left us suddenly
in the middle of a season to double his wages by managing an English club,
Leicester.
The manager was very successful and would
have been remembered as a hero if he had waited until the end of the season to
leave. What is even worse about his betrayal is the number of times he said
that Celtic was the club he had loved all his life, how he couldn’t be happier
anywhere else, and so on.
Be careful what you say. Don’t let your mouth run away with you. If you make promises you cannot keep then your
words will later seem hollow and people will feel betrayed.
Vocabulary:
to get together – of a relationship, to
form a partnership; to start to date
flirtation – behaviour that demonstrates a
playful sexual attraction toward someone
the ultimate – the best or final
a stepping stone – one stage on a path
leading somewhere else
hollow – without substance
to betray – to be seriously disloyal to; to
cheat someone’s trust
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