Hello there. As always... it's been a long time. I'm currently on my summer break, so it gives me some time to drop by to take some precious time by my APT balcony to write about something or (more precisely) 《that someone》 who takes the best of me. What If this time I go a bit deeper within my feelings? I think it would be nice to immortalize some of my love story. Everyone has their own, right? Some stories last a lifetime, while others remain as a good memory, or for those unfortunate ones, a nightmare. In my very own case, I would describe it as an admirable one.

I understand that some people do not believe in love nowadays, and that is okay. They have struggled with countless issues that relationships face... But I personally think that you just can't go on living if you haven't experienced the pleasure that brings when your eyes shine when seeing a particular face, when you get butterflies deep within your belly when thinking about that "someone", or when hanging up the phone becomes a serious issue to deal with.

My story takes me back some years ago when Facebook was at its peak. The times in which all those "spam friend-requests" were an everyday experience. I call it "an experience" as most of the people sending them were people you had never met in your life, and you never knew why they were so -in- to keep on reaching you out.Well, all in between within the group of accepted people, a nice and smiley boy showed up. By then I was on my 17s and the concept of falling in love was quite the opposite to the one I have now. I had never experienced falling in love before...  but being a teenager, I was hopeful that anything could eventually work. To make the long story short: we chatted, we laughed, we met, we kissed, and soon after, we broke up. Kinda ephimeral. Teenage years are just like that... lovers come and go, every crush fades in the same amount of time in which they appear, we experience suffering, the feeling of betrayal or anger. By then, I became a teenager who was heartbroken and hence, listening to break up songs became my favorite activity to do. 

Years passed, and I did change. My look was not the same, my preferences had evolved, and my heart had healed. I was on my 21s by then... Thinking that love was not meant for me... that being a gay young man was probably unpleasantly rough. (I actually recall looking at other couples and believing I was meant to become someone like the gay version of that "insanely obsessed lady with cats" starred within The Simpsons). Okay, two things against that possibility: FIRST: I hated cats (by then) , and SECOND: I was way more polished than that lady. (Good to know!). Anyway, within those tiring days after attending the university, I was by the bus stop... and ta-dah! there he was... again... next to me... waiting for the bus... smiling at me just like he used to (I thought to myself: this boy hasn't stopped being that charming!). I said Hi, and I approached. He was as smiley as day one, a real gentleman, a bit older (I must confess) but with an expression on his face that was simply exuding good feelings. We took the bus and then we started talking again. Exchanging numbers was the first thing, and sending a new friend request on facebook was again part of our story. 

I have to be honest, at first I didn't want to fall again, but somehow the story was already set. I began to experience a whole new side of me and a new side of him as well. Looking back to those early years in 2010s I can't take out of my mind how simple -yet meaningful- was the flirting process. From picking each other up from college, to unending conversations on our feet with almost no money on our pockets, or the unchangeable dates eating junk food in a food court like Doggis. I surrendered myself to value things that go beyond the amount of money that is spent. I learned the good way that smoking a cigarrete together by the square, walking near the shore, waiting impatietly to see his face again, being happy for every thing accomplished, taking pictures in every single day we had the chance to see each other, redescovering places (where I never saw the beauty) and changing the contact name on my phone to a more personal one (among countless other things and feelings) were enough to see myself believing that I could be loved again... or someone was caring about me. So folks: All of a sudden: I was in love again.

More than 10 years have passed since the beginning of this new story, and I can tell that throughout all these years I have learned that being a happy human is possible, that giving love to another is real when love is shared, when memories are real, when respect is the key, when complicity remains as its core, when struggles are meant to be solved with communication and introspection, or when your expectations and plans are also defined by considering what your partner is willing to say.

Of course, in these years good and bad days have been there... even if we don't want them around or even if we weren't the ones who caused them. We don't want to be a "picture-frame couple" inviting others to believe that we are perfect coz' we are not. (We don't want to be that type of couple FIRST: It would be so boring... and TWO: I have never -NEVER!- met a perfect one). I just want to be that couple who peacefully, gracefully and thoughtfully created a path with sticks, stones, plants and flowers that would one day be proud of. I do hope to look back in the future and to value all the investment we both did and not regret about a thing.

So... Everybody has their own demons, right? I sometimes wonder if I am worthy enough and I have learned that I am. why? because I have invested the greatest thing that I could give to someone: my time and my heart... but I haven't been the only one, as it is reciprocal. Fancy feeling the same that I do?

Anyway... The truth is that F, is more than the first letter of the person I love... It actually represents my Failures when younger and when becoming an adult, it also represents the Feelings that I never thought I was going to discover, as well as the Fears I needed to overcome to be and feel like the person I am today.... but above all, it stands for our Future and the Favorite version of ourselves. 

So it does... Love does exist. Have you opened your heart to experience it like that? I have... and it feels great. I wish someone somewhere gets to feel like I do right now, because my life hasn't been shinier before, and this is because of a story made of two.

Until the next time, readers!