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Dear Auntie Pearl, I met this guy on New Year’s 2016 while I was away for the weekend.
We met there by Langebaan. He was working there and we fell in love when we met. Everything was going so well and we were phoning one another and he even came to visit me once.
But then I never saw him again and I tried to phone a couple of times but no answer, and I don’t think he’s on WhatsApp anymore and he’s blocked me on Facebook.
Please help me. My friends say I have to forget about him. The thing is now it’s almost New Year again and I can’t stop thinking about him.
From M
A
Jinne poplap, your story mos sounds like a Hollywood movie, nuh!
But this is an old fliek! You’re taking us all the way back to New Year of 2016, sjoe! You know it’s 2019 next year, meisie?
So the thing is just this M, sometimes things don’t work out. Sometimes things are magical and perfect and beautiful, but then it expires, it ends, it’s finish en klaar.
Falling in love at the beach on New Year’s, yoh, that’s what memories are made of. And it sounds like you made some magical memories, but hartjie daai’s what it’s going to stay - memories.
Yoh, it’s two years later, sweetie pie, and you’re still pining for this outjie? Soos my mammie always said - it’s better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved.
So hold the memories of your beach romance close to your heart and move on with your life.
In your letter to Auntie, you say he came to visit you once and you were chatting en alles was lekker, and then you stopped hearing from him and couldn’t contact him on WhatsApp or Facebook – now M, he’s clearly telling you something.
He could have taken the time to be decent and tune you about what was going on and how he doesn’t want to be in a romantic type relationship with you anymore.
But he didn’t, he took the coward’s way out.
And you have to be better than that, rise from that, and move on, my meisie.
Move on and make 2019 your year!
Don’t waste another year waiting for this loser outjie who clearly didn’t have the ballas to tune you to your face.