Amor Vincit Omnia
On February 15th, 2008, a boy and a girl went out on a date. They drank some wine, danced, ate sushi, and talked late into the night. In one evening, a love was born.
The couple survived through their final years of college together, graduated, and made plans to fulfill their hopes, dreams and goals. However, to do everything they want to do in life, he is moving to Michigan to complete his PhD while she works on her Masters in California.
With a love still as strong as when it began, perhaps even stronger, they will venture out into being a long distance couple, hoping that through the next chapter in their life and despite the difficulties, love really can conquer all.
*Our Next Embrace*:
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It’s worth it…I promise.
This one time I painted a living room with a girl.
This was a handful of years back. It was about eight months before the huge, flame-out of a breakup. That day, though? That day we painted the living room? It was pretty uneventful. We painted my parents living room for $50 between us and a pizza. That was it. I think we watched Anchorman or something after that.
But it still holds as on of the most indelible memories I have. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not still in love, it happened, it was good, it ended, and we’ve both moved on. But I’ll never forget that day. Because it’s never, in the long run, about the grand gestures. You can fly across the world and show up on her doorstep with a rose in your teeth and a ring in a little velvet box but I can guarantee you that - more often than not - she’s going to remember the time you built the birdhouse in the back yard, or what have you, a whole lot more.
Life wasn’t meant to be taken in large movements. The next day will inevitably arrive, you’ll sleep, and the moment will have passed. But when you have a hundred thousand small moments, you can step back and appreciate the picture a lot more than metaphorically blowing your load on some grand moment that, in all honesty, look, you’re not Bruce Fucking Springsteen, you’re not going to be able to blow everyone’s mind every single night. You’re not Romeo and/or Juliet. There’s no reason to drink the poison together in some flame-out gesture. So that leaves us with the small stuff. It’s all about the detail.
That’s what love is. Attention to detail.
And the moment will end. And then things will get boring. And it might get a little quiet. And it might all end horribly. And you might hate eachother at the end. And you might walk away from eachother one day and never speak again. But that’s just how it goes.
But she’ll remember the time you held the door open for her on your first date.
She’ll remember the time you laughed at her impression of the landlady.
She’ll remember the time you stayed up all night that first time.
She’ll remember the small things a lot longer than the big ones.But everything ends. And I’ll tell you why you have to make the small things, the small moments count so much more:
One day, probably a while longer from now, when old age takes ahold of someone, she might just only remember your smile. Everything you ever did together, every second, every moment, every beat, every morning spent in bed, every evening spent together on the sofa, all of that - gone. Everything you ever did will be reduced to the head of a pin. She won’t remember your name. She’ll just remember your smile, and she’ll smile. She won’t know why. It’s a base, gut reaction. But she’ll smile, uncontrollably, and it will come from somewhere so deep as to know that you touched her on a primal, honest, and true level that no scientist, scholar, or savant could ever begin to explain. There is no more. There is nothing else. There is just this: She’ll remember your smile, and she’ll smile.
And you know what? That’s all that really matters in the end.
Do you remember that one kiss outside the taxi in Germany, in the rain? You said I wouldn’t remember, you said it wouldn’t matter. It did. It does. <3
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Quote reblogged from Starry-Eyed.If God wants you to be together in four or five years, it doesn’t matter if one of you goes to the moon. You’ll be back together.1001 Things Every College Student Needs to Know
(Source: thegloriouspursuit)
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…I am getting giddy and not being able to concentrate on anythinggggg.
Thank goodness I will be done with finals when he is here!
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Quote reblogged from Looking Back Is A Bad Habit.But I must admit I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept.Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
(Source: matricides)
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Post reblogged from Dear Old Love
I woke up thinking about you today, and spent it all in bed imagining you were beside me again.
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Post reblogged from Dear Old Love
I’m moving back to California for you, you idiot.
I’d move anywhere for you, you idiot.
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Video reblogged from Southern Cinderella
John Mayer- All We Ever Do I Say Goodbye
I bought a ticket on a plane
And by the time it landed you had gone again
I love you more than songs can say
But I can’t keep running after yesterdayBlah. I really need him here…only a few more days, but they can’t come soon enough.
(Source: southern-cinderella-mc)
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Photo reblogged from Happy Hour
