Come Away with Me

The Question

To be honest, I've been wondering how to approach this particular entry. In fact, I wasn't even sure in the first place if I should share something this personal over cyberspace. It seems a bit strange, as if making an announcement over the PA system.

As you might recall, this blog was started as a place for me to record the many things that happened during my days in Japan and is also a means where I keep in touch and updated with friends. So that when life resumes to normality once again after I am back and many years down the road, the time spent in Japan will not simply morph into a dreamlike existence. Thus it occured to me that it would be a bit incomplete, like a missing piece from a jigsaw puzzle, to not have mentioned what is possibly one of the most significant moment of my entire story here.

It's quite simple and straightforward affair. There weren't any romantic poems or self-composed song sung to strumming guitar. No frills no nothing. Nevertheless, it was the sweetest thing to me. Just a face flushed with excitement, a little black box clenched tightly in the fist and a tumbled strings of words. He asked The Question. I was stumped. It took a while for the moment to sink in before I realised what happened.

Do i see it coming along? Have I been anticipating it? Well, it's both a yes and no. Yes because it's a natural progression for the relationship. No because I wasn't expecting a proposal until I return to Singapore, after things settle down again once more.

But either way, the reply will still be the same isn't it? I always think that the world is such a big place and the possibility of one being anywhere and meeting whoever is infinite. The fact that you're able to find someone who wants to travel through life's journey together with you is indeed a real blessing.

My feelings at the moment are perhaps best encapsulate by a Japanese proverb that I had recently been taught by a kindly school principal. 全てに時あり(subeteni toki ari) simply means in life there is a time for everything. And I can't agree more.

This time last year, I just got news of my posting to an island and remember feeling really anxious yet excited at the prospect of finally realizing the long cherished dream of working and living abroad on my own. In fact, that was all I could think about at that time. Now, with less than 3 months remaining, my one year adventure in Japan is coming to a close soon. No doubt I will miss my life on the little island a lot. Make the best of each day and cherish the moment now, that's what I've been reminding myself constantly these days. Come August, I will be homeward bound. This time I am looking forward to the beginning of a new chapter in life. :)

posted by テレサ @ 1:30 PM