One year

It's interesting to think about how much can happen in one year. Sure, if you pick any twelve-month period of your life, lots of things will happen. Some good, some bad, and some in the middle. This time last year, we were all rallying around the Bruins during their Stanley Cup run. Who knows if we'll be doing the same next June, or if it will be a Celtics NBA Championship pursuit.

A lot can happen with school too. Hell, we've spent every year in memory with education, and it almost seems that our childhood years run not from January to December, but from September to May and June to August. Although within each school year, I guess it's broken up into weeks, terms, semesters, and the like.

But outside of my family, I've never really spent an entire year with someone. I mean even in my first two years at school I've been away from Watertown for most of the year. But the one constant, in addition to family, friends, and myself, is Vicki. Sometimes I can't help but wonder how she still likes me/puts up with me, but hey, we're still together and I love every single moment of it. We've gone here and there and back again, and taking many different routes to get there. But I don't want to go too far into anything. Because what happens between us is just that - between us. It's not anybody else's relationship, no one else is involved, and we know that at the end of the day, we're going to want to be with each other. And as long as that happens, we'll do just that. Which is all I can ask out of us. It's been an amazing year of dating and over fifteen months of knowing each other, and I want those counts to keep going on, and I want everything to stay amazing. Which will take a lot of work, no doubt. But come on, every relationship takes work. If it didn't, then it wouldn't be any fun, and it wouldn't seem worth it. Knowing that you have something to work towards every day, and that you're excited to work for it, is an incredibly rewarding experience, especially when it's on a human level.