OCTOBER 6, 2019
This life we live is short-live; I know. I was just 16 years old yesterday; when I woke up, I was 20 plus 16 years already.
This life we live is filled with love all around. We just sometimes close our beings to it. We forget to embrace the Universe made out of love by The One.
I am a sucker for love stories. The ones Shakespeare talk about in his tales. The ones made-into-films like The Fault in Our Stars or The Notebook.
Oh, how I embraced those. I once told myself that if I did fall in love, that I would have an epic love story... one made for the books! 😅
How embarrassing now, looking back!
I believe in knight-in-shining armors. I believe in Always and Forever. I believe in holding hands, in butterfly kisses, in gentle touches that send a kind of tingling to the soul. Touches that awaken the many senses endowed to us by The One and which we should not shame.
This love story of ours, there is no danger involved, no car chases, no damsel in distress being rescued; so unlike what we see in the movies, or those I've read in romantic novels.
There is only tenderness, a beautiful ache, a longing, a wanting, a need to bridge the distance that separates us, all 74 nautical miles or a 137 kilometers of it. (Yup, that is how far Ormoc is to Cebu.)
Then, this should be multiplied into the many days we are apart. That is the Distance Between Us. We cannot live without, yet we can live apart. This arrangement of ours made me realize what a lifetime is made of really.
It is not made of the years, months, weeks or days together. It is in the moments we are apart that we know we are connected, because there is always this aching, this need.
Oh, this love story of ours. So intricate. So complicated. Yet so simple all at once, because it all boils down to... I love you then, now and forever.
I pray one day our children, Paul Daniel and Phoebe Dawn, would also experience how it is to love and be loved. How it is between a Man and a Woman. How it is to be blessed and to be a blessing all at once. How it is to have an uneventful love story yet make an epic out of it.
This is the life we have been bestowed upon. It is short-lived. We both know. We just got married. Woke up; and here we are, all 14 years...
Happy 14th wedding anniversary my love. Happy 14th year of togetherness, of being apart, of not wanting to live without.
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| Boracay 2010: In celebration of our 5th wedding anniversary; and, Palawan 2015: In celebration of our 10th wedding anniversary... Next year, sa atong 15th wedding anniversary, asa ta?! 😆 |
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