going through thought catalog and came to this article: 'the way you should love someone'

Choose to love them when they say your least favorite word, choose to love them when they have a day when they need you more than usual, choose to love them when they smell like shit, choose to love them when they aren’t well, when they aren’t the able-bodied picture of beauty they were when they met you because people never stay the way you want them to. You should know that.

By choosing to love, you are accepting the flaws and ugliness that comes along with something beautiful. You are understanding just how life works.

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the first paragraph really reminds me of le panda. sometimes, though very rarely, he'd be repeating some 'fad words' and it'd annoy the shyt out of me. though it'd always be me who always need the other person more. which he always obliges. (when he's around now w the distance, he tries his best...) and when he's not well. le panda is big in size but he's more prone to falling sick than i am. i love nursing and caring and making sure he's okay when we were physically together. how i'd treat him like a baby. even though i do too when he's not sick. but this reminded me the time when he was hospitalized for the knee surgery.. which he's going to get another done for the other knee this year :(

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i'm not sure if i'd say i absolutely know how life works because i don't. but i do know that with this person, this panda of mine - we have come a long way. of knowing each other, and being so comfortable and just.... happy for the simplest things. and most of the time, nothing. just knowing that we have each other, and being in each other's company, is sufficient. i guess that's part of love too.

6 more months to go :((( 

i don't know how i'm going to hang on to threads of memories,

 i'm terrified to know they would just fade and become more vague by the days... 

if you could only be here. just for a minute. 

and i'll ask for a lifetime.