500 WORDS, DAY 15: Our 7th Anniversary

Today I have to take a break from the philosophical topics I’ve been discussing so far regarding creativity, music and such things, in order to write about something even more important than all of that, to write about my love for someone who means the world to me. Today my wife and I are celebrating our seventh anniversary, and it’s really the biggest blessing in my life. Time really does fly; I can’t even believe how fast the years have passed. My wife Maria has brought so much joy and love to my life ever since we met at a call center in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 10 years ago. I was actually born in Honduras, as I mentioned in another post a few days ago. At around 9 I moved to Vancouver with my parents and brothers. That was back in 2004. Ten years later, having finished high school and with my parents encouraging me to take a ‘vacation’ because of all the drama and problems I had gotten myself involved in, I decided to travel to Honduras, to visit the place where I was born and raised for the first decade of my life, to spend some time with my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. I didn’t know how long I was going to stay there, but I didn’t imagine it would be a couple years, and I definitely hadn’t imagined how drastically my life would change during those years. It was an amazing feeling, being free and away from my parents, finally living my life the way I wanted. It seems somewhat stupid in retrospect, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that that was all that I wanted at that point in my life, more freedom. Anyway, I ended up getting a job at a call center because I speak English, and that’s where I met Maria in 2014. She’s the kindest and most selfless person I know, and I’ve really learned a lot from her throughout the years. Her love of life, her amazing energy, and her respect and overall positive attitude towards other people as well as life itself, continues to be a daily inspiration from me. Whenever I’m really stressed with everything that’s going on in life or in the world, I remind myself that I have a treasure that many people don’t, a treasure that I can’t afford to take for granted, and just for that I’m extremely blessed. I understand and appreciate that I have a reason to live, another life that I care for just as much as my own. We got married three years after we met, and later we started a sponsorship process to get her to come back to Canada with me, which finally happened in February of 2020. We got married in 2017, so we lived the first three years of our married life in Honduras, where life was much simpler and we had so much time to spend together making great memories. I’m super happy that we finally achieved our goal of getting Maria back here with me, but those years that we spent together in Honduras were really golden years, filled with so much love and passion. I learned what it was like to share my life with someone else, and to really care about someone other than myself, to watch out for her and to want to make her happy. I lost all interest in any sort of drama and decided to live life properly, to take it easy and to stay hopeful. Words could never properly convey what I feel for my wife, but I thought I’d at least try to get something written about her today. Since I’m doing this writing goal, I might as well try to write about the things that matter the most to me. I really hope everyone gets to experience love like this at some point, with somebody who makes them comfortable truly being themselves, and who encourages them to express the best of what is within them. Human connection is really something that cannot be matched by any other experience, and when it is positive and genuine it can be life-changing.

If you have a few minutes please listen to the song I dedicated to my wife ‘Couldn’t Live Without My Baby.’ I appreciate you. Stay blessed.