On February 14th, 2008 – I came home from work to a stunning yellow orchid in my room and a Valentines Day card. I knew they were from my roommate, but she’d arranged it all to look like a stranger had stopped by.
I picked the card off of my pillow and it read:
Beautiful Athena,
On this day – of all days- I write to remind you of me.
You don’t know me yet, but I am here. I have been looking for you as long and as diligently as you have been looking for me.
Don’t get discouraged, at the most perfect moment we shall meet! We shall know, together, the love we both long for. Hold open your precious heart and Believe – we shall have our BLISS.
Until then – Happy Valentines Day
Love, your future.
I sat on the edge of my bed that day and burst into tears. Of course this brought my roommate rushing in to the room in distress. She moaned and knelt beside me, “Oh, No!” She cried “This wasn’t supposed to happen!”
At this I began to laugh through my tears. “It’s the good cry.” I managed to say and we both began to chuckle.
It was the sweetest Valentines gift anyone had ever given me.
What stemmed from that beautiful surprise was a thought. What if he’s truly looking for me as much as I am looking for him? What if we are not in the same city? What if we weren’t even in the same state or even country?
While my roommate is a powerfully hopeful romantic, I confess, I’m not even sure it there is such thing as a true love.
Is it possible, I wondered? Could it actually happen? Curiosity began to eat at me follow by the fear that there might in fact be such thing as true and abiding love – but that fate would get all confused and we might never actually meet. I suppose it wouldn’t be fate then, but I guess I never much believed in that either.
So I decided to start a blog in hopes that it would make it easier for us to find one another. I imagine, I suppose, that in the great world of internet, that our paths will cross accidentally on purpose.
Until then I could keep him apprised of what’s going on in my search. I could keep my image updated so he would recognize me and post things that I think we might have in common if not just a mutual interest.
If you are reading this and you know where he is, would you mind just letting him know where I’m at? I’d greatly appreciate it. If you’re reading this and you believe in love, please drop me a line and tell me about it – I’d dearly love to know.
If you’re reading this to discover if I ever meet him, if we somehow find one another, then buckle up – I have no idea where this is going. Quite honestly this whole blog stemmed from a lovely card I received from a magnificent roommate on Valentines. Maybe her gesture will have sparked a search that leads to a great adventure wherein she ultimately, inadvertently convinces me of true love.
