A Love Story

I love love stories, whether they're real or fantastical, simple or exaggerated, old or new. I love hearing about them. Today i was just surfing thru sephora looking at make up when I got messages from my best friend about our barkada's brother and his love story. He actually made a website about it, their wedding and the pictures. www.sayaka-andrew.com, ask me for the password :)

Here is my favorite story in his site...

“Sayaka. She is the one”

December 22 2008

When Andrew was in college, he went to a fortune teller who told him that he will get married twice, with both marriages existing at the same time. Resigned to his fate as a bigamist, Andrew sought the counsel of his mother and asked her what kind of girl she wanted him to marry. “As long as you are happy, she is the one.” she said. A few years later, she would pass away, and in her memory Andrew decided to let her simple requirement be his standard, but no once came close.

Then he got really sick one December night. While everyone was celebrating the Christmas season, he was stuck in his room with nothing to do. He surfed the web and chanced upon a website he previously visited but never had time to read . “I have nothing else to do. might as well read it.” he thought to himself. It was the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) website, a leadership course in Hawaii. He read all night and filed his application form a few days after.

Meanwhile, a few thousand miles up north, Sayaka was researching online for an NGO working on HIV/AIDS in the Asia Pacific region for her work. She typed the name of the NGO but landed on the APLP website instead.

Both of them got accepted, and the rest is history.

They decided to get married in Japan and the Philippines, in honor of relatives and friends who could not fly to the other’s country to attend their wedding. And so, as was written in Andrew’s palm, and in the stars, Andrew indeed was to be married twice, but only to one girl. The girl Andrew’s mom never met but spoke of decades before, “As long as you are happy, she is the one”, she said. In tagalog, “(Basta ma)Sayaka, she is the one.”

It's been so long since i cried over something i read or heard or watched... but this story moved me to tears, maybe imagining their mom's face while reading it or how he managed to see that her name translates into his mom's advice just made me feel tearful.

As he said in his site...
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

So today, i will try and see everything as though they are miracles :)