a decade of love.

long time ago i was waiting for this year to come, quick. maybe i wasn't busy during those times that when suddenly it's 2013 i am totally surprised to remember that there's something about it that i really look forward to celebrate.

this year marks my 10-year long love for the one and only man i gave my heart to -- to take care of, to inflict pain to, to break... to mend.

this is not to say that in all 10 years i am the only woman he loved. when i had my share of heartaches from only one person, he had his from many others. he explored. i didn't. or maybe i tried, but i still kept feeling empty with a gaping hole that my first romance left me with, that no other man can ever fill.

so maybe it's luck that brought us back together. and he, with all his fiasco in love and the learnings that came with it. i, with a firm realization that i can only love one man in this lifetime.

that realization still makes me wonder if it's still too early to tell, but from the time i was 15 and now that i turned 25, between then and now, if there is any change that conspired, it is that the love i feel for this man grew stronger, crazier, deeper.

so yes, maybe it's luck. that, and the powerful combination of tigas ng ulo and lambot ng puso. these are the things that brought us back together for many many many times. we allowed our heads to be hardened, to forget, to listen to reasons and our hearts to be softened, to forgive, to welcome every new beginning like it is the first. and like any other firsts and beginnings, it's sweet and fresh and new.

i thank the universe for the multiple chances that were granted to us all throughout these ten years. i thank fate that like us, it never gets tired of giving us chances as much as we never get tired of making use of them.

it's been a decade of love. and it is indeed fitting that we're celebrating it this year, not via skype or viber or tango or kakao talk or whatnot. this time around, we're gonna be together. it's gonna be live. it's gonna be real.

and, to our greatest relief and pleasure, our countdown will soon be over. :)

hello 2013

say what you mean and mean what you say. appreciate things that made you smile and give credit when it is due. say "thank you" for the favors given and "sorry" for the pain you caused.

in retrospect, life doesn't require much from me & you. :)

2013, you don't have to be good to me. i better be good to you.