LOVING YOU MAKES ME SMILE

People will ask and most not understand

This feeling I have when holding your hand

They will look, but they won’t see

What it is you do to me

You hold my hand and look in my eyes

Your amazing love came to me by surprise

This feeling is one I have never had

You came to my life and made me glad

People will try and figure it out

Just what is this love all about

They will listen but they won’t hear

What it is that makes you so dear

You kiss my lips and hold me tight

Your loving voice puts my mind right

This Love is one I have never seen

I can’t put in words just what you mean

People will come along and stare

This feeling is one that is very rare

They will speak, but never say

What it is that makes my day

You look at me and give a grin

Your perfect heart has let me in

This love is one nothing can sever

I plan to be yours for now and forever

People will look and never see

Just how you came to be with me

You have gone the extra mile

And LOVING you MAKES ME SMILE!

UNBELIEVABLE SURPRISE

I have always heard “it will happen when you least expect it”, “expect the unexpected”, and I have never given much credit to either saying. It just seems so cliché to think that something that you have been looking for, wanting, searching for, hoping to find, will just come along when you are not expecting it. Well, I am going to say now that I should have believed in this statement.

I have been “dating” for a while now, and have even gone the way of the “online dating” scene. Recently I decided to shut down my profile on the “dating sites” and take a break from the “scene”. Out of the blue when I logged on to one site to delete my profile I had a message. After much self debate, I decided to open it and read it. I am now glad I did.

After hours of chatting on the site, then via one of the many instant messaging services, we exchanged numbers. We then texted for a couple of hours before the first phone call. When I heard the deep and loving voice on the other end my heart melted. We made plans to talk and text for a few days before we would get to a point of meeting. Those plans changed when he suggested one evening that he was bored and thought he should come meet me and hang out. So, we agreed on a time and we met.
　
Another cliché statement is saying it was “love at first site”. This may not have been exactly true, but it wasn’t much after that first site that it was obvious that this was going to be something special. We proceeded to see each other each evening after and just sit and talk and watch TV, getting to know about one another. Asking questions, discussing one another’s likes and dislikes, and finding out one another’s favorite things made things seem so real.

Then we got to the big moment, during conversation he asked me if I would “go out with him”, if I would be his “boyfriend”. I felt like I was back in Junior High, and it was a GREAT feeling. Of course I said YES and we have continued to get to know one another. The next big moment was that moment when looking into one another’s eyes we both said the words “I LOVE YOU”!

I was not expecting it, nor was I looking for it. I had decided to take a “break” from the dating scene and just devote some time to myself, my family, my work, my coaching, my writing, and my friends. I was not looking for a new friend, especially not a boyfriend. However, thanks to a chance moment and perfect timing something that I least expected happened while I was not looking. I guess I should have paid heed to the sayings and been expecting the unexpected.

I am glad to have now met this very special guy, and to have him in my life now. He is amazing and we marvel every second at how random and unexpected our meeting was, and at how quickly we have become so close. I know many will scoff and criticize, it has already started. I just want everyone to know that I am HAPPIER than EVER. I appreciate the protective nature of my friends and family, and I appreciate the advice to proceed with caution. I am a big boy, and I am very cautious. I have been so afraid to let love happen, that when it did I was so surprised.

This may not be forever, but I am not sure what forever means anymore. I know that it feels right, and that I love him, and he loves me in the here and now. We will take things according to another cliché statement and proceed with caution “one day at a time”. As he joins me on this journey, I welcome the partnership. I welcome the love that he offers to me unconditionally. I thank GOD for bringing us together at a moment when I was ready to give up. From now on in life I will learn to listen to the little cliché sayings. I will “expect the unexpected” because it is going to happen “when I least expect it” as “love at first site” leads us to take things “one day at a time”.