A Long Way from Love to Love

First love. The most beautiful thing in the world. Pure, innocent, selfless. It probably won’t last long. It probably won’t bring happiness—and it won’t end in a wedding. Such love remains in memory as a bright recollection, an unreachable ideal, a fairy tale. Meanwhile, reality is a dreary marriage to an unloved person—lonely, childless life and resentment, which seemed to settle in the heart forever. And ahead lies a long journey—from love to hatred, from hatred to forgiveness, from forgiveness back to love.