A True Love Thirty Years Late - Visitor's Love Story

by Ka Robert
(Manila, Philippines)

Is it possible that you will meet the girl of your dreams 30 years later? It is and it did happen to me. Will you also believe when I say she was born 30 years later than the day I was born?

I really do not know why this had to happen to me at the age I am in. I am 51 years old and she is only 21. I do not know what attracted me to her. Is it her smile? Is it her sweetness? Is it the naïveness I saw in her? Is it because we are of the same birth date?

The very first time I saw her, I immediately felt something inside me that says “Hey, that’s her! That’s the girl for you!” What are you saying? I am old enough to be her dad! She is just the same age as my son! How crazy can that be? Am I becoming a nut case? I am talking to myself! Maybe so! But how can you fight a feeling that suddenly grew inside of you? This is crazy! Really, really crazy!

So what I did, I put my mind off that thought and instead concentrated on knowing her more. I just considered her a challenge to my being a family man and instead acted to her as a father figure knowing that her immediate family is away from her.

But you know what? I got jealous whenever I saw her in the company of other guys very much younger than me. Even more so if I could see that they were trying to flirt with her. “Hey, you guys better back off!” “That’s my girl you are messing with!”

All those are all only in my thoughts and I know I will not have the chance to say it loud. As I said I am just a “senior citizen” in her eyes and subject to her respect. I know that this feeling I have for her right now will remain just like that, a feeling.

I do not regret to having this feeling. Love does not have any boundaries but I know where to place myself. Just like what I've said a while ago, this feeling will remain just a feeling, with no realization at all. Just happy that at least I still have met and known my true love, only that, it is thirty years late!