You know when there’s that book you’ve been meaning to read or a movie you’ve been meaning to see but never quite got around to it due to some semi-subconscious effort to wait for the “right moment?”

Well for me that book was emily giffin’s love the one you’re with.

And now is that moment.

Thank you . . . I’m sorry . . . I’ll always love you. They were all true—and still are—but were better left unsaid, just as I decided never to confess how close I came to losing everything. Instead, I hold that day deep within myself, as a reminder that love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
-emily giffin

Reading this book helped me find a better grasp on the many dynamics of relationships, the ups -the downs – the blahs – and most importantly the uncertainty, excitement & curiosity that comes with the other one.

“But maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.”

The whole thing reminds me on one of the phrases taped on my mother’s desk:

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? –Arab proverb

“I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance—sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.”

And I hope to keep that faith. To keep believing in love. That although it comes and goes—ebbing and flowing like the tide on a new england beach—love brings such joy to our lives that it is important to relish every moment.

my new goal is to write everyday, in order to improve my writing abilities and become a more reliable person.

perhaps this seems frivolous, but it is something important.

besides, how else can I be documenting a journey without sharing the details?