Distance Doesn't Matter to the Heart:

No matter what happens today, it is going to be a good day.

Two years and nine months ago I got into a relationship with my current boyfriend, Matt. We were perfect- the couple that everyone knew. Our senior year we were named Cosby High School's "Cutest Couple!" 

But right before I left for college, we decided to break up. 

At the time I wasn't ready for a long distance relationship. The seven hours we would have to spend apart scared me. I thought it couldn't work, with out even giving it a try. 

Fast forward 9 months later and Matt and I are still in love. When he came up to see me during his spring break, he said to me, "I am so happy to call you my girlfriend, again." There was no question, no confusion, just bliss and smiles. We were going to give the 430 miles of distance apart a fight to try and ever break us up again.

I have never been so in love, never so happy to see another person, never so excited to be held and protected, as I am when I'm with Matt.

I am so thankful to be in this relationship.

"If you love someone more than anything, then the distance only matters to the mind, not the heart." 

-Love Matters (Film, 1993)

Hey papa, I love you

 (A few days after we started dating in September, 2008)

Hey papa, I love you

 (Hahaha, when he came up to visit for Memorial Day, 2011)

I like celebrating every month on  the twenty-fourth, even though we did stop dating.

Twenty-four holds a special meaning to us.

Not only that, but it isn't like during the months that we were apart we stopped loving each other. 

If that were the case, we wouldn't have relationship we have today. 

And for that, I am blessed.

"Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion not be a finding but a sweet collision of destinies."  

- Stargirl (by Jerry Spinelli)
(...and found from this blog)

And we didn't find each other. It was destiny. I love you.