My wedding ring which I like is a
silver band. It’s simple and classic. I say like because I cannot say love.
What is important is the meaning behind the ring, what it represents. It’s a
wonderful reminder of the honor I get of being able to spend the rest of my
life with my best friend.
So my husband surprised me this past week.
He had my wedding ring inscribed. What I liked about this surprise also is it
was just us. Before I continue I’ll try (try) not to have too many side rants
or thoughts going on in the story because it’s a story that matters to me, but
I can’t promise I won’t end with a quote from my favorite movie About Time.
I will not say what the ring says
because there are some things that should stay between the couple. Let’s not
forget the Mr. Wiggly awkward fiasco of 2010. If you don’t know who Mr. Wiggly
please get on the YouTubes and watch The Guild. In my humble opinion it is a
wonderfully, awesome witty show.
During the moment my husband gave me
the ring, we realized one of the words was misspelled. It still made me happy
because all I saw was the thought that went behind everything he did to
surprise me. And I also look at it as a symbol to his dorkiness. Don’t worry its
okay he knows I think he is a dork. That is one of the things that first
attracted me to him.
We talked about the misspelling a
couple of days later and he said while it still bugged him a little, all that
mattered was how my face still lit up even after the misspelling. To which I
said I am a warrior and an assassin I do not light up. Cue in Fooled Around and
Fell in Love.
So the morale of the story here is
when it comes to our significant others remember not just the big moments but
the small ones. When you’re both on the couch (side rant: I guess depending on
which you prefer or how you grew up you can also call it a sofa) reading a
book. It’s those small moments that make the big moments special because you
know a great big expensive gift pales in comparison to the love.
To some small moments may sound
boring but that’s okay because every couple is different. For me what matters
is getting to spend time with my best friend. I get to spend the rest of my
life with the one I love. He is everything I never knew I wanted the first day
we met. And everything I knew I was missing by the second day in what would be
the rest of our lives.
“And in the end I think I’ve learned
the final lesson from my travels in time; and I’ve even gone one step further
than my father did: The truth is I now don’t travel back at all, not even for
the day. I just try to live every day as if I’ve deliberately come back to this
one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary,
ordinary life."
