100% Lover

A story i came across when I was blog hopping, (rough english translation below)

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『從前從前，有一個地方，有一位少年和一位少女。少年十八歲，少女十六歲。少年並不怎麼俊，少女也不怎麼漂亮。是任何地方都有的孤獨而平凡的少年和少女。不過他們都堅決地相信，在這世界上的某個地方，一定有一位100%跟自己相配的少女和少年。
有一天，兩個人在街角偶然遇見了。
「好奇怪呀！我一直都在找妳，也許妳不會相信，不過妳對我來說，正是100%的女孩子呢。」少年對少女說。
少女對少年說：「你對我來說才正是100%的男孩子呢。一切的一切都跟我想像的一模一樣。簡直像在做夢嘛。」
兩個人在公園的長椅上坐下好像有永遠談不完的話，一直談下去，兩個人再也不孤獨了。追求100%的對象，被100%的對象追求，是一件多麼美妙的事啊！ 可是兩個人心裡，卻閃現一點點的疑慮，就那麼一點點－－－夢想就那麼簡單地實現，是不是一件好事呢？
談話忽然中斷的時候，少年這麼說道：「讓我們再試一次看看。如果我們兩個真的是100%的情侶的話，將來一定還會在某個地方再相遇，而且下次見面的時候，如果互相還覺得對方是100%的話，那麼我們馬上就結婚，妳看怎麼樣？」
「好哇。」少女說。
於是兩個人就分手了。其實說真的，實在沒有任何需要考驗的地方：因為他們是名副其實100%的情侶，而且命運的波濤是註定要捉弄有情人的。
就這樣少年長成三十二歲，少女也有三十歲了。時光以驚人的速度流逝而過。
於是在一個四月的晴朗早晨，少年為了喝一杯Morning Service的咖啡，而在原宿一條巷子裡，由東向西走去，兩個人在巷子正中央擦肩而過，失去的記憶的微弱之光，瞬間在兩人心中一閃。
她對我來說，「正是100%的女孩呀！」
他對我而言，「真是100%的男孩啊！」
可是他們記憶之光太微弱了，他們的聲音再也不像十四年前那麼清澈了，兩個人一語不發地擦肩而過，就這樣消失到人群裡去了。
你不覺得很悲哀嗎？我真應該這樣向她開口表白的啊！』

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This if i am not too mistaken is a short story from a famous Japanese author. Normally when i feel like sharing a story on my blog, i would do some simple translation and post it. But this article is really interesting and i dun think i can translate it properly, but for the English educated folks, (or Bananas as my friend once call KH so directly =p ), the story basically says,

~Once there was a guy (18) and a girl (16) who are both not particularly outstanding in looks or anything, but both believed that there is a 100% guy/girl that matches themselves somewhere in this world. So one day they met on street, and immediately they knew and realize it and both told each other "you are exactly like the 100% guy/girl i imagine". They clicked on really well, except for one little doubt, that this is too easy. So they decided they will part, as if they were 100% meant for each other, they believe they will meet again. 14 years passed, and they met again on street one day. Immediately in their heart, a voice says "this is the 100% guy/girl for me" but neither cud remember each other, and after 14 years, neither has the impulse as how they used to. 5hey didnt say a word, but simply crossed each other and went on.~



3 things,

-Real life experience has thought us good things never come too easily, but wat if u r that lucky? Is too good to be true means we shudnt take it?

-Right time at the right place and with the right person, i always believe thats how things will work. The story above for example, they met too early for the first time, when they thought it was too easy, imagine if they have a few years of fruitless search, i bet they wud jump on each other immediately. The second time, they were too grown up, where life has thought them too be reserved, and not act on impulse. Think of this, and our gay experience, when we first came into the circle, we imagine all sorts of beautiful love story, we tell someone we just met we had never or only sleep with 1 person and being proud of it. Then years down the road, we see more, we try and failed, and some people start to be reserved, to protect they already worn heart from further harm. They dun easily fall for someone, they let others make a move, or evn 20 moves before they make a step forward. Some dun even believe in it. As some calls it, jaded... What if that person is indeed the right person? But u simply make him feel he is not..

-Lastly, 100% lover, perfect in the eyes of beholder, well, realistically speaking, they never been together before so it seems to be 100% on the superficial side. For me, 100% shud be what u bring to the other, or u compliment ur lover in everyway, that makes it 100% lover. No one is perfect, but u love him for who he is, and u are willing to cover him for what he is lack of. That is 100% perfect lover. And it doesnt always hav to be 50-50.