Love story : Dee and Dang

It was one year ago today that I and my wife first came face-to-face. One year ago today, I left my home and my family to find my wife, my life.

It has been one of the most eventful years of my life- exciting, distressing, peaceful, longing, fulfilling, lonely, accompanied, sensible, nonsensical. There were times when I was teacher, times when I was student. There were times I wondered if I were going to make it, times when I felt as if I could conquer the world.

Sure, times have been hard, but I wouldn’t trade one experience. I wouldn’t trade a single tear shed in lonliness for a month of tear-free days. I wouldn’t trade a single night feeling lost for a hundred in my warm bed in Tennessee. I wouldn’t trade or change a thing, for, though it was hard, every experience of every day has made me a better, stronger man. And, more importantly, the lonely nights and tears brought my wife and I togehter. We had to fight for our life together.

When I think of the past year, the sufferings, I can’t forget that those led to the greatest peace I’ve ever known, the happiness of my life, the most fulfilling aspect of my life- my wife, Dang.

I’m a man full of love and purpose. I have a real reason to live. Every day now, I awaken full of hope for the day. I awaken to my sleeping wife in my arms and the tears seem like a distant star who died a long time ago who is but a memory.

We have a good life together, full of excitement and simple pleasures. From where I stand now, I can say…. it has been a good year.