Postscript
Or there’s another possibility… She knows that I can’t handle the pressure of seeing my loved one take on such heavy workloads, so she decided to set me free and face all the challenges herself. She has been working part-timely since the second semester here, and god knows how many years of part-time work she had done back during her undergraduate years. Maybe her family doesn’t have that much fund to subsidize her life in such a big city, or maybe her parents have to preserve their cash for her little brother. She has a part-time teaching job at a private education ins ute. The number of classes is limited but who knows how many hours she has to spend to prepare for each class? She rarely goes to sleep before 11pm, often well past 12pm or even late to the midnight sometimes. Maybe she’s already used to heavy workloads, but apparently I am not, I can’t even tolerate seeing my loved one work so hard.
The feeling thing is just a pretext, in my opinion. It comes and goes all the time. I may also have one or two periods of time everyday when I don’t feel quite affectionate with her, but when I open the folder and see her pictures the feeling comes back to me immediately.
Does she think that I’m too lazy? Could it be the reason why she decided to give up on me? She always thinks highly of people who’re devoted to research works, so I guess it’s probably not a main reason. She is a great person and a great friend, and I wouldn’t feel surprised if you tell me that she may give up her own happiness in exchange for that of her loved one’s. Maybe she doesn’t want to drag me into her busy life style, and this assumption perfectly explains why her at ude to me changed so much after she signed with the P Company. She wants me to seek happiness on my own, looking for a local pretty girl that I like, and live a happy life with her. Life would be easier for me if I get myself a local girl from a family of similar status, and that’s the kind of life Phoebe wants me to live, while she will be facing all the challenges and heavy pressure by herself. She knows that I love her to death, so the only way to make me leave her is acting cold to me, convincing me that she doesn’t have the feeling for me anymore…
I’m just a spoiled kid in her eyes, to be honest, and she doesn’t want my life to be changed so much because of her. She believes that my life would be happier if I had a local girl than if I had herself as my girlfriend, but the point she missed is that, she was the one who released me from the cage of celibacy, and only she has the key to switch on/off that mode. Now that I’m already back in my normal celibate mode, I won’t fall in love ever again (male or female) unless she passes on the key to someone else. But the key exists not in her hands, but in her heart, and her spirit, therefore it is not replicable. So, it’s not really my choice to be a celibate, but rather the Goddess’s choice… and I’m living happily this way. Something might seem to be missing in my life, but life itself is designed to be imperfect, in my opinion.
I may probably never know the real reason why she turned me down but… anyway, she made her choice and I have to respect it, and I’ll still live up to my promises. I would do everything in my power to give her whatever support she may possibly needs. She is a great friend and a great personality, and it’s a great honor to be a friend of hers, even if just a casual friend.
All my best and genuine wishes to Phoebe a.k.a the Lunar Goddess…
- Mark Celibate

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