What Love Really Is

This day began just as normally as any other day would, with the alarm ringing at 10:30 on the dot.However this was no normal day, today was the ultimate anniversary as my wife and I like to call it. We have been doing this for probably 24 years, this all came together as a result of our relationship having three major anniversaries in the same month.I guess you could say that besides our love for each other we both loved the month of October. It started the day after my birthday, on the eighth of October I saw her for the first time and I think about it a countless amount of times during the day.It was only the second month of being on campus and everyone was still getting acquainted with the lay out of such a big school. I want to say that it's because of how ruggedly handsome I was that she walked up to me and asked for directions, but I know that its only because I couldn't keep my eyes off of her.Well now that I think about it maybe my looks helped a bit, as instead of asking me to stop being a creep and staring at her she came to me and asked if I knew how to get to the history building. Of course I volunteered to show her where it was, but in my heart I knew I had no idea where I was going but would kick myself if I didn't take the chance to be around her more. We eventually found the history building after asking another stranger, but even though I still couldn't tell you where that building is;I did learn one thing that day, she was everything I could ever ask for and more.We can fast forward through the rest of the fall and spring semesters until we arrive again in October, October the 16th to be more precise. It had been over a year since we had become friends and I still hadn't gotten the courage to attempt to make a move, that was until I had experienced possibly the most beautiful day of my life.The kind of day that October 16th was something you hear about in fairy tales or far away lands, I just couldn't let it go to waste. I knew what I had to do that day, I had to gather my courage and profess my love for her. There was not going to be a better day and probably never has been, but how could I complete such a daunting task. The perfect girl deserves the perfect way of being asked out on a date, I wondered around campus scouring the place for the perfect area to finally do it. Nothing met the requirements, and looking back I don't think I ever would have found a place that she would deserve to be asked out at. The day nears its end and I have nothing that I needed to ask her out, no flowers, no picnic, and not even a place I wanted to do it. I decide to sit down and gather my thoughts until I get hit in the head with a piece of paper, it was her. The only thing more beautiful than the day of October 16th, and I knew what I had to do. I walk to her and put her hands in mine, as I do this I realize I had not prepared for the most important part, what to say. My hands start to sweat and I begin to internally freak out, I try to speak and nothing comes out.I am left standing there as a bumbling idiot. My eyes darting from place to place until they lock with her caring, understanding, and kind eyes, I knew what I had to say. "There is only one thing more beautiful than today, and I'm lucky enough to be looking at it."Some how October 12th is a day that tops the last two and it isn't even close. Just like I had been when it comes to moments that involve her, I am calmed up and somehow more nervous than the previous two days combined. I tidy myself up and make sure that I look the best I can as today will be the day I will remember for the rest of my life. I open the doors and walk down the aisle, with every person I love staring at me just how I always imagined. As I get to the alter I look around at the moment and start to comprehend just what is about to happen, but before I can think anymore I hear the door of the church open once more. This time with something so undeniably beautiful and breathtaking walking through the doors. We go through the tradition and I wanted to go last in the part where the couple reads there vows. As her words begin to pull tears out of my eyes I think to myself how I have been so lucky to be where I am today. With her final words leaving her mouth I realize it's my turn. "I only have one thing to say on this beautiful day as I don't think I could ever top the kind words she said about me.""However, I do believe this will have the same impact it did when I said it oh so long ago.""There is only one thing more beautiful than today, and I am forever blessed to be able to look at it for as long as I am able." Three of the happiest days of my life, but now it's time to go. I gather all my things before I go including the gift I have for her. I drive to the restaurant that we have always loved and ask for my reservation at the table we always eat at. I sit down and set up the frame so I can look at her while I give her my gift, funny enough it was a new frame as the current frame is old and out of fashion. I take out my favorite picture of her and insert it into the new one and order a meal for one. The month of October will always be ours, happy 25 years together.I will always love you.