There was once this guy who was very much in love with his girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small fry in his company, his future didn't seem too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day when his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told him that she can not visualize any future for the both of them, so they went their own ways there and then. The guy agreed. He loved her. Though he was heartbroken he wanted to respect her decision. He was distressed and dismayed.  But when he regained his confidence, he worked hard day and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of him.Finally with all the hard work and help from friends, he set up his own company. You never fail until you stop trying.

 

One rainy day, while this guy was driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination. Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn't take him long to realize they were his girl's parents. With a heart to get back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury Sedan. He wanted them to know that he wasn't the same any more; he had his own company, car and apartment, etc. He made it!  What he saw next confused him; the couple was walking towards a cemetery. He got out of his car and followed them… and he saw his girl, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone and he saw his paper cranes right beside her.
                                        
Her parents saw him. He asked them when and how this had happened. They explained that she did not leave for France at all. She was ill with cancer. She had believed that he will make it someday but she did not want to be his obstacle... therefore she had chosen to leave him.

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. She had wanted her parents to put his paper cranes beside her, because, if the day comes when fate brings him to her again...he can take some of those back with him.

 

Once you have loved, you will always love. For what's in your mind may escape but what's in your heart will remain forever. The guy just wept. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them, knowing you can't have them, see them or be with them ever again.Find time to realize that there is one person who means so much to you; for you might wake up one morning losing that person who you thought meant nothing to you.

                                       
                                           

(P.S.   This forward had been lying in an inbox ever since I received it.  Today, when I was remembering a loved on – looking at the only picture I have of him, recollecting all the memories we made as childhood friends, I searched this ‘forward’ to share with you. My friend 'A' died in a road accident at age 22. I was not told about his death and so, I could not even see him for that last time. In a way it was good. Had I seen him lying still on the floor, wrapped in that white muslin cloth, incense smoke over his head, memories of him in his rugged black jeans, red/orange  T-shirt, ready to zoom his bike, would have been overtaken. I am glad I remember him as someone still alive – jolly and cheerful, bubbly and bright. I am missing him so much. And he is smiling at me – kidding me.  If only I could hit him again, jerk him, tease him and tell him to come catch me, if he could – just one last time. I have taken out the sea green pencil box that he presented me when I was in class six;  I wish to be left alone in my room with a old slam book and a photograph.)