As I watch Rafael Nadal hangs on the line in the Australian Open, the wounds of losing my footing on the line still remains today, but I’m healing also.
In the summer of 2011 a month before the Western & Southern Open Tennis championships were held in Mason, Oh not that far from King’s Island theme park I saw a Metro bus coach 2136 (image is below) that had semi wrap advertising with Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova. Also I stumbled on another Metro bus coach 2131 (image is below 2136 photo) that had a semi wrap that showed the illusion of tennis balls smashing the windows which was kind of funny.
When I took those photos I was reminded that my ex girlfriend who broke up with me months earlier love tennis to the point she took photos of the Western & Southern Open Tennis championships in 2010 before her family moved on to the Louisville area in late August.
Love of tennis remains today even though she and I shared the same fanatic feelings for Rafael Nadal, she is long gone and never coming back to me like a back-handed serve. The love I thought I had with her was the real thing, however it’s not the love of the person that was gone but getting love of tennis which means 0. My heart was broken just over a year ago this month when the Australian Open was starting in 2011. I tried to email her, called her and posted threads from Facebook for a while after the last time I saw in Louisville in October I received no answer until close to three months came and went like a John McEnroe tennis racquets being smashed 1000 times.
I felt like 1000 tennis racquets being smashed when one sentence which was no more than 70 words a letter she send to me from email was the agony of defeat I was feeling for a while was confirmed…she broke up with me. I was so confused, she told me she was going to be forth-coming about everything that was going on or what wasn’t going on say so. I was expecting a phone call or a lengthy email within days of my last visit; instead I was feeling like a set-up pitcher waiting and holding for a save for Mariano Rivera that would never come for almost 3 months.
Would I leave a woman I wanted to date hanging…I did that once before as some of my readers know, and I wouldn’t want anyone wait 3 months to know a break-up was in motion as I did. Smashing tennis rackets in sadness and anger metaphorically speaking isn’t the answer but living life in the moment is. Regardless Nadal wins or loses Australian Open; the tennis season has just begun in 2012.
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| Semi wrap featuring Rafael Nadal and Maris Sharapova on Sorta coach 2136 in Summer 2011. |
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| Sorta coach 2136 earlier this year in the cold. |
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| Sorta coach 2131 looks to being smashed by tennis balls at Fairview Loop in late Spring 2011. The weather was extremely hot that day. |
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| Sorta coach 2131 drenched in the rain 2 weeks ago. Coach was involved in tragic accident in Carthage neighborhood in Cincinnati on Christmas Day in 2010. The link of tragic accident is below. |
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