It was so easy to feel like giving up was the only solution. If you don't say hello to someone new, you don't risk another goodbye, right? The only possible way to be completely sure you won't be heartbroken is to not put yourself out there and be vulnerable with another person. It's a lonely place to be, but it is easy to do. It was so easy to shut myself off from the other guys and to keep to myself... and then came you.

I guess they're right when they say that when you stop looking, the right person comes to you. When you first came around, I told myself there was no possible way it could happen. I told myself being "dark and twisty" and sticking to the single life was easier, but my mind wouldn't stop echoing your name when I let my thoughts wander. You were everything I'd wanted and more and I never saw you coming.

So thank you for popping up unexpectedly. I don't worry that you'll change your mind about me one random day and leave my alone. Instead, I am comfortable and positive that you are my very best friend that gives me absolutely everything I deserve. The fragility and grace you possessed when pursuing me and pursuing what we have is something I admire deeply, as well as the confidence. You make me feel safe and special, just as every girl should. I have found myself becoming less and less worried and insecure about the negative possibilities and more excited for the future and all the happy moments that are to come. Life with you makes sense and if you would've asked me a year ago if I would've been in this place, I would've said no without a doubt.

I'll never understand how you did it, but you broke down my walls and made me believe in so much more again. I think that's one of the most beautiful feelings in the world... hope being renewed. It makes you feel new and like anything is possible, just as you should everyday.

I didn't see you coming at all. I didn't see this coming. Life throws some of the most unexpected things at us at the most unexpected times. And sometimes, those things end up being the most beautiful.