Translation: A Boy’s First Love.
I am always amazed by how someone’s first love story sounded, the details in each story I heard, the imagination I got whenever the story was told, and almost everything about a first love could really fascinates me. My first love story wasn’t a happy one; I fell in love with someone when I was just 8 years-old and painful, silently, continued to love the same boy for 10 years until I reached 18 years old. Yeay for me and my foolishness for loving someone that long but I admitted, first love is surely hard to forget.
My older sister always said, “If you actually marry that boy 10 years ago, you should be having 2 or 3 children together already” in order to tease me. But she was right, 10 years is a very long time.
Anyway, this post isn’t about my pitiful first love and my self but it is about my nephew’s first love. Little Hongki, or in which his real name is Amirul, was forced to tell me whether he actually have a crush on any girls in his school. And for everyone’s information, he is just 5 years-old turning 6 years-old in February next year.
It seems my beloved nephew already have his first crush, over a girl named Zaqia. She stays at the nursery he stays as well and to my surprise, because he is always be considered as the ‘Little Hongki’, I couldn’t believe he really is like Hongki. Remember in MNET Scandal in which Hongki’s friends revealed that he only liked older girls or someone who is at the same age as him? Well, surprise! That girl who is my nephew’s first crush happens to be TWO YEARS older than him. A noona-dongsaeng crush complex?
From the childish conversation I had with Amirul, he said that girl doesn’t really know him. I asked on how he knew her name, and he said that he heard the teachers in his nursery call her Zaqia. Now, I feel like my nephew is a stalker or something. You should see how his face reddened when he told me this story today. He was smiling endlessly and he was blushing. He made me promised that I won’t tell his mother (my older sister) and so I did, but I never promised that I won’t tell anyone else, especially those who might read this post.
I don’t know why but I feel weird to see a 5 years-old boy getting embarrassed as he told the story of the girl he likes. The innocence and the sincerity he showed amazed me, like how I am always amazed by other’s first love’s story. An innocent boy who has his first crush over a girl who is two years older than him, doesn’t that sound drama-like?
Ah, this reminded me of the song 소년 소녀를 만나다 (Boy Meets Girl) by FT Island. About an unforgettable first love; the sweet scent of first love which would remind no matter how long time goes by.
I remembered this quote in which I read from a love novel about several years ago, “A man would never forget his first love, while a woman would never forget her last love.”
Ring a bell, anyone? FT Island also sings a song about this, a man’s unforgettable first love as sang in the song 남자의 첫사랑은 무덤까지 간다고 (A Man’s First Love Follows Him to the Grave). I am not sure about the part of the quote in which it tells a woman would never forget her last love but it sure sounds interesting.
Everyone will once experience a beautiful innocent first love story. I did and surely it could never be erased from my life. What about you, why don’t you sit back and refresh the first love’s story of your life for once?
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