Love on Air

By Katlego Lehlabile

To never give-up on love, it comes in different ways. One of these days we all going to feel and experience that true love.

That true love does happen once in a while, whereby you just cant imagine your life with that person and willing even to die for that person. Eventually it might happen that you break-up and reality comes in. then you start experiencing different feeling for that person and you might even hate him/her more that you loved him/her. As life goes on, you start experiencing the same feelings of love for a different person and start realising that God can give you another chance to love again. Most important thing is that NEVER GIVE-UP ON LOVE

I started writing this book when I was 20 years old, doing my first semester at Central University of Technology, Free State.

What inspired me to write this book, was the true love I had for one of the ladies at home, the difficulties i had to go through just to win her heart, experiences I have encountered both spiritually and emotionally.

This is the love I will always cherish, although both of us moved on with our lives with different people.

I will like to thank my family for the support they have shown during this relationship, mostly I will like to thank God Almighty for hearing my prayers and supported me through the relationship period.

To God be the glory!!!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: Dec 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482804126

Katlego Lehlabile

My name is Katlego Lehlabile. I was raised in a Christian family and attended Christian church. I am raised by my mom and great grandmother together with my two brothers. This book is all about the experience that I have encountered believing in the love that I had for Puleng Ntsho.

Book preview

1

Lifestyle

M y name is Katlego Lehlabile. This book is all about the experience that I have encountered believing in the love that I had for Puleng Ntsho.

I grew up in the church called God Ministry, but I was not alone; Puleng was there too, attending the same church together from when we were still young. What can I say? All I can say is that it’s true when it was said that the person you grew up with can be the love of your life. We attended children’s ministry together. Sometimes me and my brother, Thato, would visit her and her twin sister, Pulane, and play together with them.

We grew up knowing each other like that. Then we joined youth choir; she became one of the song leaders and was usually one of the worshipers in the church. It was all natural to me about her because we treated each other as a sister and a brother. This was the same treatment we gave to all the sisters and brothers of the church; this was the Christian love that we shared to one another.

I told myself one thing and it helped me a lot: that I will treat every woman I come across as if she were a man, not getting involved with a woman while I’m still young. And surprisingly, I did manage to achieve my goal. Although when I started the age of adolescence, I tried to get involved with a woman, but I couldn’t do it; maybe I was scared of approaching and proposing to a woman.

2

Starting of Love

T hen a year came that changed my life, a year that unlocked my heart and allowed me to love more than I ever loved before, a year that gave my heart a freedom to love the way it wants to, a year I couldn’t be in control of my heart any more, a year when love was poured exceedingly in my heart and it was overflowing all over my heart, and a year that showed me a different view of a woman. That year was 2002. I started realising that I kept on thinking about one girl every time when I am alone. The year was nearly over. We were both doing grade 10.

This was a year I started developing feelings for Puleng. The first time I realised that I’m developing feelings for her, I thought it was just a thing that always comes and goes. I tried hard to ignore these feelings, but I couldn’t. Every time when I’m trying to ignore them, it was like I’m telling them to keep on becoming stronger. Then I had to come into an agreement with my heart, promising it that I will tell Puleng I have feelings for her; maybe the response from Puleng will be better to heal my heart. But the year ended without me telling her how I felt about her.

The year 2003 came, and those feelings I had for Puleng last year became stronger. Then I prayed to God to give me just an opportunity to tell her how I feel about her, to take the fear away from me, to give me boldness to face and tell her that I love her. Sometimes when I thought about her, it was like the river was overflowing in my heart with her love and pushing me to tell her as soon as possible, but I couldn’t just go and tell her I love her out of the blue; I needed some time to think about it thoroughly so that I wouldn’t regret it later. This year, we were doing grade 11.

3

Proposing

T here was a conference at Tswelopele, March 2003. I told myself that the conference will never end without her knowing that I have feelings for her. The day came for the journey to Tswelopele. We all met at church, and guess what? I was put in the same taxi with her, sitting behind her. The time we arrived there, my feelings for her were under control. It was Friday, the 28th. All things were right for that day. Although I wanted to tell her immediately how I feel about her, but the feelings were not very strong at that time.

The 29th on Saturday after church, during the night, as we all walked to our different rooms, I wanted to call her aside so I could have a word with her, but I couldn’t. As I entered the room I was sleeping in, those feelings struck me like a mighty cloud. I realised that I couldn’t live like this any more. I tried to hold on, but they fought with me using great power. It was like a river overfilled with water, and the water was flowing all over the place. Her love was flowing all over my heart, and there was nothing I could do about it. The only thing I had to do was to just tell her I have feelings for her.

Fortunately, there was one of the sisters in the room. Her name is Diakanyeng. I begged her to go and call Puleng for me. She went outside and asked one of the brothers to call Puleng for me. Puleng did come, but the time she was about to enter the room, one of the brothers tried to stop her from coming in, and Diakanyeng shouted at him, telling him to leave Puleng alone because she came to see me.

I got up and went to her and asked her if we could take a walk to the other side of the building, and she agreed. As we were walking there, she asked me if it was a serious thing, and I said yes, it was a serious thing. The time we got to the other side of the building, we stopped and stood facing each other, and these were the words we said to each other:

PULENG: Yes, what do you want to say, Katlego?

KATLEGO: Okay, there is something I have been meaning to tell you. I had to take the fear away just to be able to tell you this. I know it might not be the time to tell you this, but I have to because I can’t take it any longer.

PULENG: [Interrupting] What is it, Katlego? It’s getting late.

KATLEGO: I have been feeling like this for a long time. I thought it was a thing that will just come and go, but it always grew stronger and stronger, so I decided that the only way to overcome this is to let you know that I have feelings for you, Puleng.

PULENG: Can you repeat that

KATLEGO: I said I have feelings for you, Puleng. I love you, Puleng. This is what I wanted to tell you since I realised that I have strong feelings for you. I started having these feelings for you since last year, and I thought they would disappear, but instead of disappearing, they got stronger. So I decided to let you know and find out from you how you feel about me.

PULENG: Okay, Katlego, but I don’t love you!

KATLEGO: I know that you don’t love me, Puleng. All I wanted to do is to let you know that I love you. I don’t expect you to love me now, but maybe as time goes on, you may find it in your heart that you do have feelings for me.

PULENG: No, that won’t happen. I don’t love you, and I will never ever love you, Katlego.

KATLEGO: Never say you will never love me, Puleng, because you don’t know what can happen in the future.

PULENG: But I know I will never love you, Katlego.

KATLEGO: One thing I can tell you, Puleng, is that you can’t control your feelings on which person to love or not. It just happens, and when it happens, there is nothing you can do about it. We don’t choose who to love.

PULENG: I know that I won’t love you, Katlego.

KATLEGO: I am not saying you should love me now. All I want you to do is to think about what I have said to you, give it some time, then