If there was anything that changed my life for the absolute better, it was meeting you. For the past two and a half years, you have given me a million reasons to smile, and you know how hard that can be sometimes. It didn’t take long for me to fall for you at all. A few text messages and a few late night phone calls later and I already knew I was head over heels for the guy on the other side of the phone.
The first time I saw you in person I ran into your arms before I was even sure it was you, but the second I felt your arms around me I felt like, for the first time in my life, I had finally found my home. I found my home in a guy with spiked up hair, a white Hollister hoodie, and a pair of blue basketball shorts; and I couldn’t be happier.
Two days later it was Memorial Day, the day you met my family. My ENTIRE family! Mom, dad, brother, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, you met them all in one day. I remember how happy I felt to watch you shake hands with the most important people in my life, and deep down I knew you were going to become just as important. We became inseparable, I remember hearing our parents talk about how we spent too much time together, but for us it seemed like there was just never enough minutes in the day. It broke my heart every time we kissed goodbye, all I wanted to stay by your side.
As the months passed that never changed, I still get butterflies every time I look into your eyes. Those eyes, so big and warm, they saved my life so many times just by staring back at me. Day by day you fixed each crack in my heart, placing the Band-Aids over each shattered piece in the most careful and beautiful way. I felt myself slipping into a dream that I never wanted to wake up from, and it was you that gave that to me. It was you that listened to all of my rants, all of my stories, and all of my hopes. You were the one I ran to when I felt sad, or when I just finished watching a sad movie and needed someone to cry to. It was you that gave me everything and more every single day.
I do not thank you nearly as much as I should for being my life vest when I think I’m drowning. You live each and every day giving so much to me and there are so many times that I know I take that for granted. Every relationship has its sharp edges, and sometimes it may seem like ours has the sharpest. But I know, right when I wake up each morning, that I am so thankful for the greatest gift this life has brought me, and that’s you. I love every single thing about you, from the way that you kiss my nose, to the way you grab my waist and pull me towards you. You treat me so much better than I deserve at times, and I hope that I love you just the same.
No matter what this life throws at us I know we were brought together for a reason, and that reason was so that we can wake up each day knowing that we have the toughest love this world has ever known. And no matter what road this life takes us on, I promise with all of my heart, I’ll drive safe my love.
