lid not on tight

It's coming up to the fifth year anniversary of when Melanie and I met and I think it's pretty cool that we've made it this far considering five years ago we were strangers. It was a fateful night when we met on the dance floor of the Lotus while Kevin Shiu was spinning records. We would spend the next 20 hours talking and laying under a tree. A week later I told a friend of hers that I worshiped the ground Mel walked on and only realized how true those words were once I had spoken them. Within a month she moved in with me, six months after that we were pregnant,  and here we are three kids and a home of our own nearly five years later. 

I remember being at a bar in my early 20's talking to a bunch women in their mid-late 30's. I was pining over some girl at the time who I was sure was the one for me and they told me how I would just know when I met her. I shrugged off their advice at the time but it was true. When you fall in love with the person you're going to build a life with, you come to a clear level of understanding, of comprehending that this is the person. It becomes an all encompassing fact.. plain and extraordinary at once. 

here's a movie that explores that subject:

500 days of summer

here's a cool youtube vid:

alone