In honor of the love month, I'm going to share five unforgettable little love stories I have had the chance of writing down from people I have talked to in the last couple of years.
Note: These stories are not necessarily all about romantic love.
💓Kimiko is a middle-aged woman from Tokyo who has never gotten married, but once in her life, when she was 25 years old, she got infatuated with a hotel staff member in Venice, Italy, and sent him a letter saying "I love you". She has not forgotten about it ever since.
💓Nagi fell in love with growing vegetables and flowers because when she was in elementary school, she was the only one who couldn't grow any plants in the school garden, and she got so invested in finding out the reason behind it. Now, she is studying soil science at her university.
💓Shiori is a woman who got married in October 2001, after only knowing and dating her husband for 2 weeks. She said it was a crazy but calculated decision she made because it was after the 9/11 attacks in the US, and she thought the world was ending. And what better way to die than having a whirlwind romance?
🎤 Pasok Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga-Die With a Smile.😂🎤
Luckily for her, the world did not end, and she is still in a loving relationship with her husband to this day, and they have two adult children.
💓Jay is a music producer and instructor who won national awards in Japan and has a big love for non-profit organizations. He is a benefactor in one of the orphanages in Negros Oriental called Casa Esperanza. He also has an organization helping the homeless in Cebu, inspired by his experience being homeless for 11 months in his own country when he was 21 years old.
💓Agustin and Marieta met on the ship in July 1991. She was a high school student, and he was a school dropout who was serving his family's false God. They wrote letters to each other for years before Agustin had the nerve to finally escape the cult. They got married in 1995 and now have five children. Their middle child is a wannabe writer and is in the process of writing a detailed account of their love story, but she hasn't finished it yet because she struggles with writing a very personal story, fearing she would mess it up.
As you can read above, there are different types of love stories. It could be love for a stranger, love for helping other people, and even love for plants. These taught us that even if we don't have the romantic love that we crave for during this love month, we can see LOVE all around us if we just bother to look for it, because, as cliché as it sounds, love does make the world go round.
Note:
Valentine's Day is the feast day of a bishop named Valentine in the third century, when religious persecution was common. He was imprisoned for secretly marrying Christian couples, which was against the emperor's decree during the Roman Empire, because Roman Emperor Claudius II believed that unmarried men made better soldiers because they had no families to worry about.
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