If You Love...

If you love a bird, you can not keep it in a cage. You have to let it fly with the wind and be free under the blue sky.

If you love flowers, you cannot cut and keep them inside the house, in a vase and on the kitchen countertop, or the dining table. You have to let them be in nature, so that they can root to the ground, can breathe the fresh air, and absorb the shiny sunlights.

Thank you for walking into my life and teaching me how to love myself. You sparkle me not with a charming appearance, or a thick wallet of money and credit cards; instead, you teach me how to be loved, how to believe in and love myself. That's what I love about you. Now, I am fulfilled and confident to welcome love and give love back. Love is not a competition. Love is a two-way connection, and based on sharing, loyalty, sincerity, support, and willingness to commit.

When I love you, I will not hold you back from anything. I will be there to support but not forcing. It is quite scary but we can do it! This is not only about 'I and me' anymore, it is now about "Me and you and we and us". We can improve ourselves together. I love you to the moon and back, my silly man! (You are silly sometimes but generally, you are smart :)) Again, nothing is impossible! We can do it!

Portland, Sep 12th 2022

Tien Pham