Being gay growing up in Australia.
Thursday 2nd 2023, I wake up in the morning dreading what’s going to happen next, I feel like I should just be as calm as the wind where everything just blows away and I have no problems but it doesn't work like that. I have been talking to a good friend of mine from a place called Australia. He is cool I guess and he is just like me he is gay. I sent him a letter asking how it is growing up where he is and the letter he sent back wrote,
“Dear John,
Growing up in Australia is ok but not everyone here knows I'm gay because I don't want to come out of the closet here at the moment it could be to difficult to get around life as a breeze. I would love to know how growing up in Germany is for you. I would love to meet you someday even though not every word you write is in English but I am learning to read it. I wish I could be as easy as you and come out of the closet. I think my dad will make a less of an effort to talk to me. I already feel like he is drifting away from me but I have always felt that he doesn't like me.
Sincerely,
Paul . J . S.”
After reading that letter I realised that it wasn't easy going through life being gay so I replied to his letter with.
“Dear Paul,
It is never easy going through life deciding weather you should come out of the closet or stay in the closet. My dad was never ok with me being gay but I told him that he should get over it because it was who I am and he could not say or do anything to stop me from being gay. I think you should come out of the closet. It is not a breeze being gay but if you come out you are not denying who you are to yourself or anyone who knows you.
Sincerely,
John . S . O.”
I have not heard from Paul for a couple months after that but when I heard from him, he told me that he had told his dad that he was gay and his dad was surprisingly ok with it. And that him and his dad are closer now than what they ever were. I was shocked when I read that but then it continued saying that he wasn't able to talk to me any more because he has been in a relationship for a couple weeks now and he isn't allowed to speak to me because his boyfriend is paranoid that he might leave him for me.
I don't think I will make you leave him for me even if he tried I would not let him, he has a boyfriend and I don't want to be some German guy that gets in the way of a Australian relationship and get the best guy in the world. So I ended up turning 18 finding a nice guy in the end who I fell in love with and I had a couple of kids with him. I still have not heard from Paul but one day soon I hope to so I can show him what he would be missing.
Two months later...
“Dear John,
I have not heard from you for awhile I was just wondering if you got my last letter saying that in three months I was going to go to Germany to see you. I hope you have been good because I miss talking to you. I don't know if there in Germany you have computers and internet but if you do I would to hear bout everything in emails because they are more reliant and efficient and I don't have a boyfriend any more he broke up with me because I was too clingy. I wouldn't mind if you have found someone because if you didn't get my last letter you wouldn't know what I have been doing with my life. If you have an email reply to my message my email is paulsru@live.com
Sincerely
Paul . J . S”
I was glad that it was not Paul who sent me that letter but his boyfriend. I have noticed in the change in his writing that he has changed I had received some photos of what he looked like when we first started talking. So I preceded to contact him via the email. I told him what happened and we were talking for 3 hours each day on the email (combined through out the day), and I told him I had a husband at one stage and I had a couple kids but me and my husband were no longer together . And we could not stopped talking.
Two days until Paul arrives in Germany I am so excited to see him, I showed him a picture of me via the email and he showed me one of him. I am meeting him at the airport when he lands, I’m excited and can't wait until he lands I will be super excited to see him.
COMMENTS
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toxicbite23
12:06 Feb 18 2012
That is cool Brian.... you have a telent for writing stories.....