i have yet to see my first falling star.
since the day i’ve read about falling stars, i have fallen in love with the idea of seeing one and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars” has since been the anthem of this fascination.
Every time I see a clear, starry night, I always whisper a silent prayer to see just one. Whenever there’s a meteor shower forecast, i spend days waiting in delightful anticipation for it.
But I still haven’t seen my falling star.
All this wait has given me nothing but stiff neck, colds, and sheer frustration. and not a single falling star.
the most frustrating part of it is when i got so close to actually seeing one. it’s that really random starry night, when stargazing was the least of my plans and was just on a plain stroll with a gang of girlfriends. then there was a falling star that everyone saw. everyone except me- just because i didn’t look up at the time everyone else did.
now i’m feeling bad over thinking that i might be the only living and seeing 14-year old who hasn’t gotten to see a single falling star!
that falling star has become as elusive for me as falling in love. when everyone else around me has witnessed the most magnificent meteor shower their eyes could ever feast on, or have seen ten million falling stars in their lifetime, i’ve had nothing. the closest call to it was thinking that i’ve found one that i thought i could love when he ended up just being a reflection of something else in my clouded eyeglasses.
it is that perpetual cycle of wait and frustration - and the tireless effort of thinking what has been wrong all this time and what was missing.
you may think that it’s the mythical reward of getting to make a wish at the sight of the falling star; that it may just be the desire of being loved.
maybe.
maybe not.
It may be the surreal and perfect visuals that Hollywood and Walt Disney have been feeding my fantasies all this time. It could be that, yes.
Or it could be the faith in the sun that lights the universe. It is knowing that so long as God is there, I will have that love story someday soon. It will be the love story that will not only make me feel loved, but to be the one to share the love. When that time comes, I pray that i will wonder no more for that “diamond in the sky” and that finally i may sing “Catch a Falling Star and Put It in Your Pocket”
Maybe, it is enough for now to know that it is a universe out there, and out of the billions of stars, one of them will fall —- for me. :)