I think it is safe to say that we've all done our fair share to in the least breath the same air as the one we were attracted too and at the most try some thing creative to express how feel for them at one time or another in our lives. Here are my top five with 5 being the least and going all the way to number 1.
My Top Five
5. So everyone knows that the end of the school year, especially in highschool, is a sentimental time and this best known for the signing of yearbooks and such. I think it was my Freshmen year at FAA (Fresno Adventist Academy) and I had been majorly crushing on a girl ever since the 8th grade (I know a year back but a lifetime at that age.) Well there she was watching seniors graduate in a very flattering gray dress and me with a camera. I mustered the courage to ask her let me take a picture of her. To my surprise she said yes. I still have that picture somewhere in the basement of my parents house tucked away into an album.
4. During the latter part of my highschool years and into my early college years I had a "step" hair cut like most asian boys. You all know what I am talking about: long on top and shaved close on the bottom. My room mate Walter was adept at shaving designs into that short portion of hair especially at the back of my head. He did a beautiful design of a musical note once that got me a lot of attention. Well I had a crush on a girl whose name began with the letter "I" and I had him shave it on the back of my head. Needless to say it embarrassed her but she still went with me to the Valentine's Day Banquet... Of course we never spoke again afterward...
3. Everyone knows that one of the "safest" ways to express your affections for someone is through a hand written note (yes even with the existence of email!) I guess safe being you don't have to see the persons reaction in person when they read the contents of your note. I remember falling for a friend of mine throught the conversations we had that lasted into the wee hours of the morning but feeling that she was completely out of my league I didn't know if I dare confess to her how I felt. I figured I would write it all out in a note because I felt I expressed myself better on paper. I caught her as she was walking from the girls dorm and gingerly gave her the note... End result? I got the girl I didn't believe I could have...
2. During my last few years in Toronto, I commuted via my performance urban bike which I loved even more than my car. I had just gotten it and was talking to my girlfriend who lived about 65 km awayon the phone. She seemed like she was feeling down and needed some cheering up because she was stuck doing something she didn't want to do for the day. I got off the phone and looked at my bike. A few minutes later I was heading out on one of the busiest avenues in Toronto with a sentimental card tucked into my waterproof backpack... After battling winds, cars, and even rain I had made it to my girlfriends front door and tucked the card into the mail slot. I turned around had headed back home. In all I rode about 200 km that day. But it was all worth it when I heard her smile on the phone that evening.
1. My new girlfriend and I had just started dating and I was living in Red Deer, Alberta and she was living in Banff about a 3 hour drive away. I had not told my parents yet for fear that they would disapprove of us getting together so quickly. I usually went to visit her on the weekends but this particular weekend for some reason or another I couldn't make it out to see her. So I was driving home from attending church by myself when my cell phone rang and it was her. She excitedly told me that she was on her way to see me and she would be in town soon. We spent a wonderful afternoon with my my parents where we told them that we were officially together and then she left for Banff late. She had to work the next day as well.
Conclusion
In the grand scheme of things my number 1 isn't something out of the ordinary or particularly creative. In fact it isn't even something I did. It was something Tess did. She went out of her way to show me that she really was interested in being with me. In fact it was something she did to show me that she truly loved me.
I was forever doing things to show the girls that I had fallen for through dramatic gestures that I liked them. There are more I could list but I won't. In end every single one ended up with someone else and I would be left trying to make sense of my loss.
Tess was the one woman who, once she decided that she loved me, gave 110% to our relationship and she hasen't stopped since. One thing I am secure in is that my wife loves me and that is a pretty amazing place to be.
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