You fall in love with a cyberfriend/textmate. But before the actual eyeball, you had that conversation over the phone. For some bizarre reason, your text mate realized that you’re not his type. He dumped you instantly. News flash! He wouldn’t want to meet you anymore.

You laid all your cards down for crying out loud. You go out and made an online confession on the cyber group’s message board where you both belong. You think that it will lesson the burden of your broken heart, but instead, you feel confused and stuck as ever.

You need someone to talk to, someone who understand and who can enlighten you of this dilemma. Your best friend comes to mind, but since he’s the most jaded and unromantic person you know, all you got were bitter, harsh, unsympathetic and angst-ridden views on what your best friend says ‘that four-letter word’ called love.

I’m pertaining to my best friend, Paulo, and who else is that ‘most jaded and unromantic’ person but me. I had to bring along my girl best friend, Cecille, to somehow pacify Paulo and ‘sympathize’ with him, which I had no intentions of doing whatsoever. We’re old enough to think for ourselves, right?

Don’t get me wrong, I really feel for my best friend but these things happen for reasons God only knows. And for us to decipher what these reasons are [or might be] is such a waste of time and energy. I may sound so cynical about all these but I do believe that in this game [gamble] called love, the rule is – outsmart, out-cheat, out-manipulate, outlast!

While Cecille, my ever romantic, mushy and in love best friend has an entirely different views altogether. "Love makes the world go round", so she says. She’s a fighter for love and will do anything, even if it hurts her, to keep her man – and their love for each other. If worse comes to worst, you’ll hear her saying these quite optimistic cliché – “It’s really not meant to be.”

Its good to see/hear both sides of the spectrum - the pros and cons; the downsides as well as the lighter sides of life. This is what Paulo told me after our talk. He didn’t get an outright solution but our [opposing] views had somehow enlightened some of his questions left unanswered. He’s way better going home than we first saw him that day.

Love(?).

Life(!).

Lovelife(Whatever!)

Postscript: Before we parted ways, Paulo received an SMS from his cyberfriend who wants to meet him, that made him quite ecstatic. But he says he's not too eager on meeting him after what happened.