Different yet the same

I never thought it would end up this way. He’s my first boyfriend and he wasn’t what I was looking for. He’s way too different from what I would have imagined. Nevertheless, I love him more than anything now.

We worked in the same company but different department.. We are colleagues and friends but we are different. He’s an Indian and I am a Chinese. He’s strong and smart but I am just a simple person and I just want to be happy.  Our friends started to put us together. He asked me out for a movie and I didn’t say yes right away. I told him I would let him know the next day and I did say yes the next day. It wasn’t that easy to say yes after all I felt that the differences between us were too obvious.

Eventually from movies to dinner dates, he finally asked me to be his girlfriend. Well, of coz I didn’t tell him the answer right away again. It took me a while to give him the “Yes”. It wasn’t ‘cause the differences between us matters. In fact, at that point, it really didn’t matter anymore and I felt the differences had become indifferent. I like him. He is mature and smart. Who cares about the differences as long as I am happy?

We became an item and everyone was happy for us except my family. It was really difficult for my family to accept him as the differences between us to them matters. I was locked out of my house ‘cause my dad was mad at me. I was scolded and lectured everyday about his existence. I was helpless. I didn’t know what to do but I was glad he walked with me and never left me alone despite the harsh words and treatment from my family. After one year of ‘battle’, my family started to accept him and felt that he’s different from his initial differences that they had made. Yeah. What you see and what you get from him are pretty different. :)

We are going to celebrate our 5th year anniversary soon. From the differences, we have outgrown and became the same. We still get weird stares and remarks from strangers but who cares?! We are happy and what better way to end a story…

We live happily ever after coz we are different yet the same.