Micro-Essay - Character Building
A couple of months ago, I wrote a short story about a fellow who was from another time and world, who was preparing for his biggest battle of all time and that battle wasn’t what he expected when he met a woman, who took his heart and put a spell on it.
A spell of co-dependence, a spell that made him fall deeply in love with her, with no idea of this spell put on him, he felt this is what love was supposed to be; a relationship of heartache, disappointment, and letting her down at all times.
His voice was so powerful that when he spoke and shared his truth, the words, and tone came with passion, but broke her down so deeply, that it left her with nothing but sadness and emptiness. He scattered her spirit molding her into the woman she is today.
He couldn’t take the infection of co-dependence and this spell that was never love, he wanted it to be cut out of his heart, he wanted to disconnect from a world that he felt forced and thrown into, but he knew that deep down inside that it would not be worth the damage he would cause to those who depended on him.
It took him almost two years of denial to find his voice and recognize the spell he was under and the co-dependent relationship which formed and brought up underlying issues that he had no control over. All he knew was that he didn’t want it to affect him anymore.
He knew that for him to be successful in this battle, he must find a way to unlatch from the co-dependence of his relationship with a woman who took him by surprise. He didn’t want to live with this infection anymore, he needed to separate from this energy of disappointment.
But it ain’t disappointment in her, he is disappointed in his actions and how he let this come to be, trying to please her by being the man she wanted and needed and not being the man he knows he is and can be, and now he is realizing that the man she needs and truly wants might not be him.
He is finding this might not be what true love is, and true love isn’t a spell. True love comes with no dependence, spell, or shackles. Love comes with no boundaries, no rules, and no limitations, it follows a set of principles that keeps the energy growing forward. He is searching for right moves that will lead to this truest of love with the woman of his dream’s.
