Tales of Battles Won and Battles Lost
Today Down High were playing at Ravenhill. We were playing Lurgan in the Plate Final. We’d played Lurgan earlier in the season and comfortably won. But this was the final and they must be good to have got that far. It was a horribly awful game. So mean. I mean, we absolutely slaughtered Lurgan. At half time it was something like 29-5 but by the final whistle it was 48-5. I started feeling sorry for them! So, that was a definite battle won! I think I’ll be going to Ravenhill for the School’s Cup final which is on St Paddy’s Day with Methody and…. Campbell!
Ok… The second bit of the title… Today, had the Welsh lad and I not broken up and had continued to be together we would have been together a year today. It was either 10:43pm or 11:43pm – I think 10:43 – that I got a message saying “So, will you be my girlfriend? Wow, sounds so cheesy…” And I will never forget that “Wow, sounds so cheesy”. It was a really good six months. And I don’t think I would change any of it (meeting would have been nice! But impossible.). While the break up was, and, to a certain extent, is still, hard I am a true believer that it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all and I am so grateful for the great friend I have gained through the relationship even though a certain aspect of that relationship has gone.
Incidentally, the third of the only three Welsh words in my vocabulary has been added to the Oxford English dictionary. The three words that got me through the six months Tim and I were together were “nos da cariad” which means “goodnight darling/sweetheart/(my) love. Cariad has been added to the dictionary. It’s a lovely word.
Rachxx
posted by Rach @ 9:23 PM
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It's rather reassuring when a relationship, that goes awry at some point, manages to develop into a properly good friendship nonetheless. I can count myself lucky that, despite the inevitable losses and trouble that came, it's somehow worked through, in the past, for me too.
Ta for the Welsh lessons, now there's a language to try and learn...
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