How do you define forever? How do you define love? How would you know if he is the one for you? These were my questions in the past.. Questions that would usually be answered with a smile from people that I talk to. Why do I ask? maybe because I wanted to know if the feeling that I have would be justified by their answers. Maybe because I thought that I would know how it feels if people would tell me that this is how it is supposed to be.

In the old days, I would have my ways of defining love. Generally it is setting the person free just to see if he comes back to you. It's letting the person realize that he wants to be with you and no one else.

Until he came to be, when I had reasons to let go, he held on. Everything in my life took a turn and all my beliefs became twisted. I used to think that I can live my life on my own. That regardless of what happens I know that I will be strong enough to face everything. Yet, after being with him for more than a year I realized that life without him is impossible. We went through tough times, but he managed to pull us through. I have always been a quitter, I was scared of fighting for something that may have any reason. I was scared that one way or another I would fail in fighting, I was scared that I may be fighting alone.

He gave me a whole lot of reason to believe in a love I never thought existed. He gave me a feeling I never knew was possible. From bitterness he would turn it to joy. He taught me what it means to be happy by just seeing him smile. He taught me that even a smile could show what happiness means. He taught me how to battle the odds and fight for what you believe in. He fought for what we have, regardless of whether what we have was right or wrong. In the end, I guess it was right after all because we have something beautiful.

I could write a million poems, a hundred stories about the love we have, there are a lot things that I could put into writing but none of which could justify the beauty of the love that we have. Forever? I know what it is, it's now. It's making everything that we have last for as long as we both could. Love? it is who he is and who I am when we are together. It is the both of us living the same dream and longing for the same path.

How would we know if he is the one for you? you will never know, yet you feel it. The heart will always be stronger than your will. Your mind becomes too smart to question what your heart feels. It becomes too overwhelmed by all the emotions that you go through.

I have always been pessimistic about love, I have seen it crumble and fall. I have felt it leave and seen it die. Yet, one way or another you just know when its going to last for the rest of your life.

There will be this instance when I fear that what he has for me might vanish, that he would wake up one day and realize that what he feels for me has died out. I feel scared still, but when I look back and remember how he single handedly won my heart, single handedly battled our odds just to fight for what we have.. I fear no more.

He is right, I should not be scared. We have the rest of our lives to fight our battles together. Now I know that I am not going to let him win our battles alone. Instead I will hold his hand in every storm and make him see that I will be with him in fighting and believing in what we have.

Love, is not a state of mind. Its a castle that is built overtime. A lot of girls would ask how I did it, how I managed to make a genie stay with me to make my wishes come true.. I smile.. it was not simple at all.. You have to hold him like there is no tomorrow and love him like there is no other day.

Now I know that my questions have been answered. He is the answer that I have been waiting and looking for.