the simple lack of you, means more to me than the presence of others.
someday, you will hold me close, and i’ll feel the safest i’ve ever been. we will spin around a room full of people who will look at us with tears in their eyes and a smile on their faces, as we take the floor to dance our first dance as husband and wife. we will get better with each step, our hearts beating as one, as we move in time with the music. on that night, everyone will see, why it is that we believed we were meant to be for the longest time.
you are more than the troy to my gabriella; you are the andrew to my nisa. and i love you, my silly boy.
andrew, you are the most adorable thing ever. lol, i know i asked for a post, but you gave me an essay! you’re a nerd, but that’s what makes me love you most. :)
the smithsonian sounds amazing! i really want to see dinosaurs, as usual. :) but i promise, i’ll never love a t-rex more than i love you, you silly goose.
Sometimes I feel really bad because I can’t sit down with you and have a discussion about some of the things you like. I know every once in a while you’d love to be able to sit down and have a discussion about a book we would read together. Things covering how emotionally connected the two characters were, but not for the reasons written directly on the pages, but more for why the story reflects some aspect of one of our lives and how we’ve come together to love each other.
I guess in that aspect, I’m a pretty bad boyfriend and no matter how hard I try I will never be better. While it may seems like unless its got to do with programming or the career I want or sport,s I’m pretty dull (and you’re probably right), there are a few places that I’d like to go with you that you might like.
One place I’ve always wanted to go is Washington D.C. because I enjoy American history. I know you said you don’t particularly fancy American history, but I think there’s lots of old things there you’d enjoy seeing. Alot of the architecture is borrowed from other cultures and times in history. Plus the Smithsonian is something you have to make it to at least once.
Another place is where I used to vacation in Tennessee when I was a kid. I know I’ve told you all about this. The mountains are really pretty and theres lots of places to go and see. Apparently if you go to the top of the highest moutain even during the summer there, you can still find snow. My parents never wanted to go see things like that even once when I was a kid so I never got to see that either. I think that maybe you’d appreciate that sort of thing enough to go and see it with me.
And the last place I can think of right now is the wharf in California where my uncle lives. I think you like to fish a little bit (not as much as your dad but that’s ok, I get kinda bored with it too after just a little bit of time). But the scenery is really pretty and theres alot of history there. Plus its like 60 degrees in the fall months and the have lots of restaurants that serve fresh fish caught that day right there off the water. I’m not a fishy kind of person but even I liked the fish. Plus they had really good calamari.
Anyway, thats just the places here I can think of off the top of my head that I’d like to go to with you. Theres honestly lots more, like New York, just driving around Indiana, and others. Plus there’s the rest of the world; The Middle East, Egypt and England.
I can’t wait to go with you because when we talk about forever, it really gets to me and it makes me feel like you’re the person I’ll connect to the most throughout the rest of my life, despite us liking alot of things different from each other. I love you so much.
someday, when i’m in your car, riding on the wrong side of the road, i’ll have my feet on your dashboard. i’ll bring along my ukelele, and i’ll serenade you with a silly song about dinosaurs and the rain. we’ll stop in the middle of nowhere to take pictures of the sky, and we’ll have to make sure to bring along some sweet tea and cake, so we can have a picnic in the rolling plains of indiana. i’ll take study your face as we lay in the grass, memorize your smell and time my breathing with yours, just in case i forget when we’re two oceans apart again.
until then, i’ll go to sleep every night, knowing i’m one day closer to being with you.
Nathan: Thank you. Thank you for believing in me.
Haley: Thank you for being worth it!
remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. a promise, like a reward for persisting through life so long alone. a belief in each other and the possibility of love. a decision to ignore simply rise above the pain in the past. a covenant, which at once binds two souls and yet severs prior ties.the celebration of the chance taken and the challenge that lies ahead. for two will always be stronger than one. like a team braced against the tempests of the world.
and love will always be the guiding force in our lives.
for tonight is mere formality. only an announcement to the world of feelings long held, promises made long ago in the sacred space in our hearts.
