Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I’m entering the contest that’s going on in the Weekend community if you haven’t seen it you should check it out! It’s about your significant other or someone else important to you. The link can be found here:
@galenkp/before-anyone-else-bae-a-posting-contest
Before Anyone Else in Italy
There are a lot of moments in our lives that define us. We have our good days and our bad days but one of the important things is if we can find somebody to share everything with. That includes both when things are easy as pie and difficult as anything can be. That important person, if you can find them, should be as much the focus of our lives as possible regardless of what’s going on.
I am fortunate enough to have found such a wonderful and amazing woman in my life. I grew up being a pretty shy kid, I wasn’t really successful with the ladies and didn’t really have a meaningful relationship until I was in my late teens. I was more interested in skateboarding, playing video games and doing other things. I certainly had a lot of crushes but I was too stupid to see some for what they were. I even had a girl in high school that I found very attractive, have her friend ask me if I would be interested in dating her. It caught me completely off guard and I messed that one up by being unsure. I hesitated at a lot of things in life it seems but I’ve been trying to make up for that. That slow change culminated in me scoring an incredible woman like my wife! Best way it could have gone if you ask me. lol
When my wife and I were dating, I signed up for a study abroad trip in Italy. I’ve spoken about it a few times here and some of the trials and tribulations that occurred with that incredible trip. I’ll go into some details of one of the toughest times we’ve had in our relationship.
The trip was an unbelievable experience and one that both of us will never forget. Neither of us had been to Europe before, nor anywhere besides just the Caribbean or Canada or something. Going so far away from our families and each other was really difficult at times. I knew a long time before I left for Italy that I wanted to marry this wonderful woman. When I was going to ask her was another question. I had all of these elaborate plans to propose when we were in the Colosseum or some other famous and wonderful place in Italy. As we got closer though I wasn’t sure about those ideas; what if I lost the ring when I was there, what if it got stolen, what if I for some reason die? Lots of strange things but I knew that I didn’t want to wait until I was in Italy before I would ask her. We were heading out for the day and she was getting ready. I had the great idea in my head that it would be the time to do it, don’t ask me why lol. Lots of fumbling around and I was able to pop the question which she thank god said yes! There’s more to the story that doesn’t need to be covered, have to have some details removed! That’s not the point of the post though.. I wanted to give a little background, who doesn’t love background?!
I was in Italy for 3 weeks without her and it was a little trying on our strength as a couple, even a newly engaged couple. We made it through and it came time for my then-fiancée to come join me in Italy so we could experience the country together instead of me without her. It came time for her to leave. We had discussed at length what we would need to do in order to meet each other. In Europe at the time, having an American cell phone that could work was unbelievably expensive so I had no cell phone service. Thankfully the hostel we stayed in had WiFi so I used my iPad and my phone to FaceTime my fiancée and my family at home. That was unbelievable at how cool that was!
The real leap of faith came for us during her journey. She went from one airport, had a layover in another one for a few hours before flying across the Atlantic and landing in Zurich where she had another layover. She then finally landed in Italy in one of the airports there. We had no cell phone communication that whole time after she left her last American layover. We both had the itinerary of the different stops, what was going to happen and where we would meet. If you’ve ever been to Italy, you will remember that things can be a little delayed from Italians being well, Italians. They don’t rush around like Americans do.
My fiancée’s plane was on time, the Germans air companies do it right! Everything was good on her end but I didn’t make it in time for our rendezvous. The trains in Italy were delayed! I had taken the early train in hopes that I would get there before she landed but turns out, even the early train wasn’t going to help me! Thankfully I managed to get that train though, if I took the other one I would have been even later!
I frantically ran around at each stop in my travels getting to the next spot to hop on the next train to get where I needed to go. I thankfully wasn’t carrying anything so I didn’t have to worry about anything being forgotten, it was just myself and my wallet/phone.
We had made these plans to meet at the airport in front of her terminal, which was good but especially tricky because there was no cellphone communication between us at all. If one of us got lost or hurt we had no way of letting them know. She had just spent about 30 hours or so between planes and airports and all that before she arrived to Italy, and I managed to be late! Oh man that was a real bad way to start the trip and our time there. I finally arrived at the airport and the gate, running through it like a madman, blazing around the corner and sitting there, dazed and confused is the love of my life sitting on a bench with her luggage, patiently but terrifyingly waiting in a foreign country she had never been, nor spoke the language, for my arrival. I’ll never forget the look of sheer relief but also happiness on her face when she saw me arrive finally, that everything was going to be alright.
Being separated from each other for weeks and then having a bit of a stressful reuniting was one of our most challenging moments. We understood that we had a bond that would be the strongest thing either one of us had ever had before and that it would be inseparable. We knew for many other reasons but our frightful experience in Italy ensured that we would be each other’s BAE for the rest of our lives. There wasn’t anything we couldn’t handle together after some terrifying moments in a foreign country and that’s one of the most important foundations of our relationship.
That was how I interpreted the contest, it might not have worked out exactly as I imagined it would but I’ll let you be the judge!
If you want to enter the contest, there’s 4 days left in it! The link is again right here!
@galenkp/before-anyone-else-bae-a-posting-contest
All images are mine from our trip!
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