Recently, I have been asking myself, "how did I possibly get into this situation." Life is funny sometimes and you have to take a step back and really think about how you got in a particular situation because life happens so quickly that some things happen without you even realizing that they did. One thing you know you are at a beer brewery in Delaware, and the next thing you know you are in Hong Kong playing lacrosse with the Thailand team. Life can move so quickly that months can seem like minutes, and minutes can seem like years. I feel like it was only a little while ago that we were making the drive up from Baltimore to Boston together, and driving around in Bridgewater with Amanda in the middle of hurricane Irene. It is hard to believe that it has been over a year since we built our first fort in Belmont, crazy right. Who were we building forts, playing monopoly, and frolicing around in Boston?
But I often look back at our relationship over the past year, and feel like it only seems like the blink of an eye. But actually some pretty cool things happened along the way. We both finished our senior year and graduated college, which is a pretty big deal. You secured a sick job working at the best hospital in the country, and I returned to Thailand to teach English at Assumption University. From the first time we met, I never would have imagined how it would turn out. From studying abroad and probably saying 26 words to one another, to some rowdy times in SC, to just hanging out as friends on cape cod, it somehow worked B. Whether it was my irresistible charm or stunning good looks that attracted you, or maybe just a few too many Ozzy's, it somehow worked out. And each day I am thankful for the opportunities provided and things that have happened to us. And to that I am so thankful to be sitting here and able to say that I have an amazing girlfriend who is 8600 miles away off bossing meetings in Maryland. I have a lot of free time here in BKK, so I often think about where I would be and what I would be doing if Brianna wasn't in my life. And that is something that is really hard to imagine, but I certaintly don't think I would be here in BKK, living out my dreams. I think I would probably be doing something in Boston and looking for a meaning in life. Throughout the college campaign, B was the one who was behind me coming to Thailand, she encouraged me to do what I wanted to do, because as we always say, "Do what's good for you, or your not good for anybody" And it makes me so pumped that you believe in this and always want the best for me. I had always wanted to be with someone who kinda thought in the same paradigm as myself. Someone who thinks "why wouldn't you do that" instead of "why would you", someone who think that relationships are easy, and that people just make them complicated, someone who just ignores trivial matters and just gets stuff done.
How did I get to Bangkok? What is life? It doesn't really matter, what matters to me is the fact that I have an incredible woman in my life who would do anything for me. And however I got in that situation remains a mystery to me, but I love it because we are lovers in a dangerous time....
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