My Favorite Song

"The One That Got Away" - Katy Perry...I'm going to try and argue about how there is a vital message covered under that beat, and the performer that Katy Perry is...so here goes.
The fact is, this song is about a person that everything was going right with...there was honest love, but something ended up getting in the way of this happiness...something that will haunt the rest of their life...
It's just a song of regret of losing someone you loved, and always being haunted by the idea that if you had done anything different, told them how you felt, apologized for saying something dumb in a timely manner, held them tight when they needed you, just done that one little thing that they needed, you would be with them in that blissfully happiness you imagine.
I have two views on this. One, this type of argument probably not healthy...I dunno, we all have that land of what might have been, but the fact is, it's healthier living in the here and now, facing life as it comes, learning from the things you've done, and facing the consequences of your actions. The fact is, they did get away. There's always a slim chance that that person might someday want you back...but living solely on that slim hope...it seems a pretty dismal way to live.
And yet, as I preach that, I sit here, knowing that I might have let the only woman I've ever truly fallen in love with become my one that got away. And I'm not ready to face that future right now...I don't want to have to face the idea that I have someone I love get away, let her leave before I plucked up the courage to admit how much I love her when she needed most to hear it. I don't want to stand there in the background being the best friend forever on the sidelines, never being in the running for actually being happily ever after with her...
I dunno, I love it, because it provokes so much thought in me...perhaps it's shallow thought, but for once it's thought, which has been absent from my head for months...so I'm gonna listen and love.