Definitely, Maybe

“So why do you want to marry me?”
“I want to marry you because you’re the first person I want to see when I wake up and the last person I want to kiss before I go to bed each night. And when I saw these hands, I knew that I wanted to hold these hands for the rest of my life. I want to marry you because when you love someone as much as I love you that is the only thing you can do. So will you ummm… marry me?”

Sometimes my faith in the institution gets shaken, and sometimes the romance of it all just makes me smile.

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Over the course of the past couple of weeks, I’ve watched a number of movies which centre around love. I watched The Bucket List about love between friends, Definitely, Maybe which is obviously about romantic love and today, The Other Boleyn Girl about love between siblings.

And yet, I know that all this is but a poor reflection of the reality that all men ought to know. Now we merely understand such love in part, but one day, we shall know fully.