FRIENDSHIP AND relationship: Two different concepts one must take cautions of. Does friendship end where a relationship started?

I asked myself once. Yet I just ended up pondering quite frequently. Many times, I tried to forget him and drive him out of my system. It was to no avail. Every single moment of my waking hours, the thought of him kept on lurking in my mind; in my being a feeling I never experienced for anyone in my life before.

Being friends with him was the hardest part to succumb to. I looked beyond him before and never really paid attention to his platonic ways. I never thought of him as sort of "special". Yet now, he owns every neuron in my brain.

So, why do I give so much importance to him? He is just a passing somebody in my existence (Yeah right!). Yet, I just find myself laughing when I remember his corny jokes in my solitude. I find myself whispering his name in my dreams.

Love with the thought of him is nothing but friendship. It doesn't expect or yearn for anything! It is merely based on understanding my feelings toward him. I know that his heart will never be mine. It belongs and always will be to her. And me? oh, I'll still be here, waiting. Call it funny, cynical or bitter but above all, true. And by the way, there's only one term for it—love. I may be a sentimental fool, but that's me. At least, I am thankful that I've learned how to love in an extraordinary way in spite of my ordinary self.

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