I've seen a lot of people fall in love. I see my mom and dad everyday how easily it is for them to fall in love with each other all over again every time he kisses her or makes her breakfast in the morning.
But what I experienced yesterday almost brought me to tears...
I've seen a lot of people fall in love. But not like this...
Yesterday I had the great privelage of accompanying my brother with his proposal to the love of his life. It was the greatest moment of my life so far.
It was her birthday yesterday and he said that he would come and get her for dinner at around five. But that was just a rouse to get her to look as pretty as possible. Instead of him picking her up, me and my sister showed up on her doorstep with a camera and a small handfull of flowers with a note on it explaining the situation of what was going on. How he sent my sister and I to take to a bunch of places that meant a lot to her and my brother. At every place there was another flower that she would find with a riddle explaining the next place that she would go. Well while we were stuck in the BYU traffic she began to tell us all about her experiences with my brother.
It was so beautiful and I began to think back to all of the memories that I had with her and my brother. It used to be that they would kiss and I would scream PDA to the top of soul. But now when I see them kiss I just know that they truely love each other. It's really sweet actually. They make each other so happy and when you look at them you can see that without a doubt they will spend the rest of their lives doing just that.
By the end of our journey finding all of the flowers, we ended up at the LDS Mt. Timpanogas temple where he was waiting patiently for her in the shirt he had so nervously ironed and the tie she had so graciously bought him. She walked over slightly anxiously and it was dark outside but the lights on the temple were never ending. So, we could still see the look on their faces when they caught each others eye. He then kissed her face and began to recite the poem that he had written just for her:
Happy Birthday Caitlyn
Todays a special day
I've brought you here to ask you
Please answer right away
There's places I'd like to take you
And places we haven't been
Places that are close to us
Or on a map we could pin
We have had a long journey
And more will come I am sure
But I just keep telling myself
That I belong with her
I have a ring, as you can see
Kneeling here on bended knee
Happy Birthday Caitlyn
Will you marry me?
They love each other so much. And to understand the poem, there is one more thing you should know about them. They have been dating for almost two years. The reason that has been such a long time for them is because back in December, when he was originally going to propose to her, they had a little stopper in time. Her mother. He went to California to meet her family and for no reason at all she decided that he wasn't good for her. Needless to say that when I heard about this I couldn't contain myself from laughing. I can honestly say that I have never seen anyone more meant for each other than these two. But this was a long process that sadly to say, is not quite over. Her mother still so high strung and doesn't approve of him which no one understands at all.
but as I was standing there filming this moment, I couldn't help but notice that she was smiling so hard (or maybe it was the tears streaming down her face) but she was so in love with him in that moment that she couldn't really say yes. But from the very second that he got on his knee she couldn't stop nodding her head. He slid the three carot diamond ring onto her finger and they just embraced each other for what felt like all night.
I would love a love like theirs one day. They can just be silly with each other whenever they need to. They trust each other enough to fix each other when it's necessary. And they love each other enough to deal with the hard stuff as if it is their own problem.
I truely believe that love is just the ability to be in peace and happiness even when the reasons to be happy seem scarce as you are around that one person, place, or thing that makes this possible.
Maybe one day, it will be my turn to experience true happiness. Or I guess, as you call it, love.
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