A year ago today I married my beautiful and adoring wife, but really my life changed the day we finally met after long talks over the internet. That day was October 20th, 2006, about a week after my brother was married. It was the somewhat rainy weekend that would eventually lead me to tonight, sitting in a restaurant with just that woman, as I asked myself, “How did I get here?” I’m a 23 year old white male from a small town in western Massachusetts, a year and a half out of university, residing in a different country and own a house, celebrating my one year wedding anniversary with an amazing wife, and I’m the only Caucasian in the Chinese restaurant that we’re dining at. I mean, really? Am I really here? This isn’t some sort of paradise dream?
The two and a half years since that weekend in October have been a roller coaster, and I’m lucky enough to say there have been far more peaks than valleys. I’m finally settling down in Canada, as a permanent resident I have a full-time job, and our amount of housework is becoming a routine. If you had told me just three years ago, as a sophomore in college, that by this time I’d be where I am now, I would have laughed you out of my dorm room.
So what does the future hold? Startlingly, this has only been the beginning; the introduction to the rest of my life. My hope for the near future is that I can really begin pursuing the passions of life after buckling down in a new home and a new life. My hope for the long term is only that I get to spend each and every moment with my wife – my better half, and my best friend.
A Happy Anniversary, indeed.
Happy anniversary Hun! I love you very much!
Happy Anniversay you crazy guys. (one of you is crazier than the other … don’t tell her I said she was crazy) Congrats!
Yes…again…I am really late. As you get to know me, this is what happens. But better late than never right!!??!!
HAPPY HAPPY (extremely belated) ANNIVERSARY YOU TWO LOVE BIRDS!!!
P.S. Don’t listen to Mark…he doesn’t know what he is talking about (if this Mark is not my husband…disregard the P.S. and I will say SORRY!!)