We had become friends, good friends I would say. And we had hung out together a number of times. But this was another level in our friendship. They used to call it going steady. No more playing the field. No more two dates at the same time. (ask me about that sometime.) No this would be something else.
It would be the road that would lead to an engagement and then to marriage. We never really believed how it would ever lead to forty years together since that day. But it creeps up on you, one day at a time. Which turns into weeks, and then months, and then years, and then, apparently decades.
It's like a mixed feeling of success and utter amazement. It's like a realization that you know you have something in your possession. Something valuable, that very few people have. It's more valuable than gold, or jewels, or whatever is at the bottom of the treasure on Oak Island.
Here is someone that you have spent most of your life with. And someone who knows you better than anyone else in the world, but still sticks around. :)
Yesterday we were watching a television show and at the commercial break she turned to me and I turned to her and we both said exactly the same thing to one another. Word for word. Thats what forty years together will get ya. Well, that and a Coke because I said it first.
I don't expect we'll see another 40 years together, but you never know. We'll take what we get and celebrate as much as we can. We will tell each other the same stories, and we will laugh at the same inside jokes. We will look at each other in a crowded room, and know what the other one is thinking. And we will remember, as long as we can remember, moments like these in our past that we shared.
Having someone in your life to do that with is honestly worth all the gold and jewels you could have.
And what a ride it's been ! Thanks for the joy you've brought me over the years 💗
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