To all the lost souls who have forgotten to believe in the immensity of love. – L.E.S.
Boy’s response to the open letter
I read the girl’s letter first last week and though we share the same sentiments, it’s a sad reality that there are cynical people in this world who will find something negative in a very hopeful letter. I could quote here dozens or even hundreds of quotations about love and finding the right man but really what all women want is to have someone who will love them back! There’s nothing wrong in dreaming or hoping, what’s wrong is settling when you know in your heart and you believe that God has prepared the best for you!
At times the wait may feel like such a drag and that sometimes you just wanna give up because you can’t see the end of the road nor the horizon. Sometimes it feels like it’s just an Oasis, something we so badly want that makes us question whether it is real or just a figment of our imagination. Everyday, when I wake up I think to myself ”Someday I will meet the man that God has prepared for me” and at the end of the day I tell myself ”Maybe today’s just not that day” but the hope for tomorrow is still there. I admit that sometimes that hope has wavered, and my faith in love has been like the sands in the shore that is changed by every wave, but my faith in God and my belief that He is working on something great for my life has always been strong and sturdy, unwavering and consistent. Reading those two letters have inspired me to write my own – Love letter to my future husband.
Dear You,
Everyday I wonder where you are. I have dreams of you and me traveling the world together but you have always been faceless. It makes me wonder, have I met you before or seen you somewhere? Have I known you all this time but was just too stubborn to realize that it was you all along? Everywhere I go, I can’t help but hope and pray that I would bump into you someday, I don’t even care whether our introductions are worth a story-telling, just meeting you would have been a great story enough for me.
I’ve met a few good guys and in each of them I thought I saw you and I apologize that I didn’t wait and that I already gave a piece of my heart to each of them. It would be dishonest of me to tell you that you will have my whole heart but I can assure you that I will save whatever is left of me for you. I am slowly putting back the pieces of the broken ones to make an even bigger room for you in my heart and hopefully it would have completely healed by the time I meet you. I know we would be best friends, and you’ll be the real one, the one who sticks around..
When I was in high school I had fallen in love with my best friend and though some may say that has been the biggest mistake of my life, I see it now as the biggest learning so far. It taught me that he wasn’t really the best (Now I know you are!) and that it was wrong of me to have built my life and dreams around him. We promised each other that we would grow old together but that promise is now old and long forgotten. For awhile it made me give up on love. I thought my whole world crashed in that instant and that my future is bleak and uncertain. But that moment only helped in leading me to you and now with you, I can see the future growing old again and I want to settle down with no other man in this world but you.
Everyday, I am surrounded by couples everywhere I turn. In the house, in the office, in the malls, in the streets and in the movies and TV shows I watch. There are those who I admire, and then there are those couples who makes me promise myself that we would never be like them. Everyday is a different story, and each story has a different lesson. I want you to know that I studied and I am continuously learning on the ways of life and love just as I know you have too so we can have a better future. I’m a talker so I would need you to listen to me, but I promise that if you talk, I will listen. I may come off as an independent, strong and opinionated woman, but beneath these smiles lie a very vulnerable heart waiting to be opened again by someone whose careful enough not to break it. I need you. I am not naive enough to think that during the course of our relationship it would not crack but I know that with you by my side we can work on fixing those cracks and make it seem brand new.
I cannot wait to start my life with you. I have so many dreams I wanna share with you, some of which I have already started in preparation of our future together and there are those of course still waiting for you. I don’t need a fancy house, but I want one with a big garden where we can sit and watch as our kids play around as they grow. I’m not really into pets, but if you wanna have a dog, as long as it’s cute I think I could live with it. I want to make you home-cooked meals which you can bring for lunch to the office or you can have it for dinner after a long day’s work, but if you wanna order Chinese or pizza, that would be fine by me too. We can eat it while we watch my favorite show or even while we’re cheering for that Basketball team you are rooting for. I know loving each other unconditionally will be tough and at times may seem impossible but I promise to be honest with you, always open so we can talk about it. Though I believe on not letting the sun go down on our anger, if you need time we can always talk about it in the morning. I will always be supportive and submissive so you can be the strong protector and provider that I know you are.
I know that God is still doing his good work in you that’s why it is taking you a while to come and be with me, but you can take your time and the be the best man you could be for me, just as God is still preparing me to be the best woman for you. I know that in God’s perfect time we will finally be together, more in love and ready than ever. Together we will both take that plunge and dive into the unknown but with God in our lives that future will unfold one-by-one clearly before our eyes. I cannot wait for that day to come, when I can finally call you mine and you can call me yours. But until then..here’s to you and to our love that will not alter.
Knowing that you’re out there waiting for me too…Gives Me Hope.
I Love You.
I’m Yours Forever and a Day,
Tine
