Taylor Swift remade this song not too long ago. I support her and her reasons for why she redid this song and her albums. At the same time, I think the best version of this song is the original song, released back in 2012. You can hear the pain, the love, the angst, and all the emotions in the original.
So, why am I sharing this song? Because it's one of my favorites to listen to. The song reminds me of a relationship that I was in. It didn't last long enough, but the relationship was RED to me. It was hot, fiery (good and bad), and it was passionate. There was so much love there. The relationship really did feel like driving in a fast sports car, exciting and wonderful but ending too soon. (Of course, it was all my fault.) And when he took his red hot sun away from my world, my world became blue like I'd never known before. It took longer than I thought for me to move on from him because he was so hard to forget and even if I had any regrets about the relationship, it was only momentarily and I knew I could never regret him. Even now, memories of him still creep into my life at unexpected times.
My friend May Shoua once asked me if I had any regrets about not being with him and I told her that he and I ended up with the people we needed to be with. Looking back, he is a special person and it was a special moment in my life. I only have love for him and I wish him lots of happiness. As for myself, I am happy with my boys and my Mr. Man. Who knows what life has in store for us, but I'm delighted that we both are with people that make us happy.
Let me know what you think of this song.
2 comments:
Love the song.
Sometime things happens for a reason which we can't explain? In this lifetime you were meant to only cross path with him; to be, by chance, in the same physical place at the same time, as a result of two completely separate journeys.
Next time around listen to your heart, instead of your mind? Even though the mind does not believe it was the right timing but your heart felt it?
Hopefully when you meet him again in the next life, fall deeply and passionate like you did before, alter your choices and it will make a different to your outcome?
Hope this helps?
I truly enjoy reading your stories.
Hi Anonymous. Thank you for your comments. You're right, sometimes the mind is more powerful than the heart.
I hope he too has had time to reflect back on his own actions when our relationship was ending. Despite what I did to him, he too closed his heart and chose to move on without me. That's fine. Sometimes I wonder if he would've altered his choice and been led to a different outcome for both of us.
Regardless of whatever happened between us, I know that he was needed elsewhere and needed to provide his wife with his strength. I know my own strength and that is what I've used to carry on. I don't pine for him and I don't think he pines for me. I know we both are happy where we are at in our current lives. He loves his wife dearly, and I love my husband and children with the might of my heart. At the same time, I'm sure we'll catch up at another time and place to trade stories. If not in this lifetime, maybe in another lifetime.
I've expressed this before, but I hope he knows that I will always be grateful to him for showing me the light that I always had in me but didn't know was there. He is truly a special person and I appreciate that he came into my life at the time he did. I will continue to have a love for him that crosses time and space, despite everything that happened to us.
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