Oh Tokyo, you just know how to pull the heart strings
it`s been a week since i have been back in Tokyo. i will always treasure the feeling of returning to this place. i know i have said it like a million times but the feeling has never changed. my heart has been in this country since 2011. it was the very first time i came to this place with my best friend to visit the danna-san who was then, my other best friend. back then, i didn`t think it was possible for me to ever come back to live here. back then, many things were uncertain. back then, i thought that Japan would just be a holiday destination. back then, there was nothing here for me.
then, years passed and life moves on. fate spins the wheels and God, in all of his strange sense of humour brought me back to this country to fall in love. it wasn`t just with the danna-san. it was with life and everything else that this country has to offer. i needed to grow and i needed to understand what i wanted in life. it took some time but i finally figured it out and well, the doors began to open one by one.
so this country became my home away from home. they say home is where the heart is right? my heart has never left this place since 2011. that feeling only grew stronger for several reasons.
a week ago, i wrote about an opportunity that closed its doors on me and i said that the likelihood is other doors will open. so, yeah, another door did open and i can hardly believe it myself.
it was the morning of boxing day and i found a strange plastic bag in my bag when i was getting ready to go out for Disneyland (aka happiest place on earth). being the OCD girl i was, i always check my bag to makesure i have everything i needed and that was when i spotted the weird item that did not belong in my bag. when i opened it, my heart literally dropped. the Danna-san was behind me the whole entire time watching as i had a little panic attack over this box. then, well, i opened it and had a few moments of "are you serious? really? oh wow.. gosh... really?" and that was how i got engaged (for the 2nd time because the first one was an accidental one over LINE).
it was very us. contrary to many people`s belief, i am not one for public engagements. i like these kind of things to be pretty low key and subtle. the Danna-san in all of his unromanticness pulled what is probably the most romantic gesture he is capable of and i could not have asked for anything more. the rest of my day was spent in Disneyland where i still felt like everything was just a dream. funnily enough, i woke up the next day thinking it was a dream and then saw that the ring was still on my finger.
so yeah, that was the story of how i got proposed to.
in the city i love by my love.
i guess the wedding planning starts now.