Sibling Sharing

After the career fair yesterday, I ate dinner with my sister (youngest) at the Korean place with 3 restaurants and an underground grocery store near Hau Nah Reum (aka H-Mart). We were just talking and I just happened to mention my ex.

My sister said this: "Kuya! Forget her. After telling me what you've talked about before and how it happened, it just shows that you guys were not meant to be." (Kuya means big brother in Filipino).

The hardest part... she's right. I still have my ex's pictures and number on my cellphone. I still have the archive of text messages between us. It seems like in my own way I've created a shrine to commemorate her. I think it's time I get rid of these and put them in a box somewhere.

The funniest part: I got schooled by an 18-year-old and I didn't get mad.

I'm done.

Why Declining An Open Relationship Was the Best Decision I Ever Made?

In 3-4 days, it will be 6 months since my ex and I broke up. To be honest, I already knew it would happen eventually and noticed all the subtle and non-subtle hints a few months before that. I kept telling myself I would be okay. She would blame her parents, her work and her grad-school online classes for being too busy. Her nagging parents didn't stop her from going out with me in the first place, so why having more reasons trying to spend a lot more time away with me when we would only see each other once a day in the weekend? I understand her predicament. As a best friend, I support her for everything. As a boyfriend, it tended to get lonely.