We had it all: The Parable Of Alex and Emma


A long time ago, in the rural outskirts of Preston, in a small meaningless village, lived two of the main characters of this story, their names aren't important and they probably never made the pages of history, but there was one thing about them which makes this short story worth reading. Alex and Emma were both in their late teens and they new each other since they were little children, they were friends who lived on two opposite sides of their small village. Alex and Emma's story is that of missed opportunities, since they both loved each other but instead of being together they only played strong and blatantly lied to each other about how they really feel and what they actually want.
Alex had only love for Emma, they knew each other for around 8 years yet each time she was close to him his stomach would tingle and all he noticed was how beautiful she really was, everything about her was heavenly to him, he knew she had flaws but that only made him love her more.
Emma had been in more relationships than Alex, but those relationships came and went, and she never felt actual love from them because she knew that no other person loved her as much as Alex, except she loved him as well, she never pushed him away when he was trying to be closer to her and he always made time for and embraced her through every sorrow he witnessed her go through.
These two friends thought quite highly of each other, so they were always scared to talk about their feelings, Alex because he always wanted to look courageous for Emma and Emma because she was scared to look weak in front of Alex.
Their life and relationship were not always this indecisive but their story ends with a prophetic tragedy as they never accepted how perfect for each other they really were, so with time they only moved further apart and neither of them understood what they were missing and how easy it was for them to be happy with each other but that's the pain of this tragedy.
Alex died at the age of 66, alone and always in tears, for his wasted love towards Emma haunted him like an evil ghost, he smoked himself to death and with his dying mind he mustered one last thought, that thought was Emma, how he remembered her, only to pass away seconds later but with a smile on his face.
Emma passed away at 78, she had a husband but no children, she rarely thought of Alex but when she did, she missed him, the simpler times where she’d be walled in by her feelings and one gentle loving embrace from him would knock this wall down and go straight to her.
She finally gained enough courage and blinded by all that misused love for him she found him the the phone-books and now she felt as Alex once did for her the teenage tingle in her stomach, but when someone answered the phone, she knew that wasn't Alex, but the word she heard next would end her will of anything, “the kind older gentlemen that lived here before me, he passed away around 12 years ago, nobody apparently called him or cared about him the other tenants of the apartment block saying that he was a spiteful loner, and pushed everyone away.”
Feeling dizzy and overcome with terrifying thoughts Emma dropped towards her bed laying there she cried, she remembered that feeling she had when Alex would drop everything for her and give her the comfort she never felt again, she closed her eyes thinking of his arms around her waist and his nose gently pressed against her cheek, with that last comforting thought she drifted off and her eyes never again opened.

These two people loved each other so much, yet wasted their love which they still felt even in their final days. Both of them were examples a moral to be learned, feelings are important and they push the world forward but without acting on those feelings, they mean only half of what they could.
Alex and Emma are both still alive but with every coming day this cursed tale, this vile prophecy only creeps ever so closer to becoming reality so Alex and Emma are both responsible for what their future together will hold.

The real and truest meaning of this parable is to show how even the deepest love between two human beings can be destroyed by a fear of courage and despite their love not completely fading their lack of courage towards each other and their feelings ruined this beautiful relationship and made two people with a simple issue pass away with regret and hurt only because they acted on their feelings too late and wrecked their relationship because of something so easily avoidable.

"I don't claim to be the first to think of this, but they are my words and they come from a broken heart."