love.
i just had an epiphany...
for the longest time i wanted to be loved. i kept waiting and pining on the same person for almost a decade and on a random night I was checking my phone and found a message request. i wasn't planning on answering but i did but i know she knew it wasn't a conversation i wanted to have so i just answered with the most uninterested response but out of the blue she replied and wanted to call and asked for 5 mins but ended up talking to me for an hour. that's when i knew.. this could be the beginning of the end. in retrospect, i wouldn't have done anything differently... it ended my 7 years of waiting and gave me 3 amazing years with one of the best people i've ever met. but what was the epiphany?
that maybe unrequited love was something easier to recover from even if it lasted longer. because i always knew i never stood a chance. but love, with you, what we had was reciprocated until it wasn't. it was love until it wasn't and it was real and it was beautiful and tragic at the same time. thank you for letting me experience that kind of love. thank you for making me feel that i was worthy to be loved. i am now starting a different chapter in my life but love, no matter how tragic, how messy and how long it would take for me to heal from what has happened i know in my heart i will always have love for you, always. thank you for all the laughter, for listening and trying to stay. please forgive me for all my shortcomings, i promise myself that i'll be a better person. i may have lost it all but i have finally got myself back and for now, this is enough. i am enough.
thank you, christine joy. for all the love, joy, and hope.
you will always be the love of my life. i meant it when i said it and it will continue to be true for the rest of my life.

















