It started with a click…
It started with a click…
Joseph, my boyfriend, I love him for two years now. I would like to take you back how Joseph and I became lovers.
As of November 2009, I received a friend request from “Seph Natividad” on Facebook. Before I confirmed him as one of my friends, I checked his profile first to make sure that I know him (because I don’t accept any friend request from anyone I don’t know or I haven’t seen yet), so I checked his photos saying to myself “Oh, he looks familiar I’m sure I’ve seen him once in our school before”. I know that we both went on the same high school in thePhilippines before I left. I confirmed his friend request then we are now officially friends by the power of Facebook. We don’t really talk that much until one day he commented on one of my status. We started making a conversation there and I found out that he left our home country at the same month we left, it was April 2008. They migrated toLos Angeles, and we migrated here inNew Zealand. I just know that he was one of my batch mates from thePhilippines and we haven’t crossed paths before. After that conversation, we started to talk a lot through Facebook (comment, chat and message).
After 3 months of getting to know him, I drew close to him. We talked about lots of things, including our interests, passion and even our own problems. Whenever I have a problem he is always there to comfort me. Of course I have friends that I can count on but there is a different feeling when he’s the one comforting me.
One day, I asked him if he likes me and he answered ‘yes’. He asked me back and I said ‘yes’ too. On that day, I can sense that something is going on between us. He even said that I’m his “special someone”. It was not a big deal for me because that time I was afraid of having a long distance relationship ‘again’, with my fears and thoughts that it might not work. As for Joseph, I can tell that he has some doubts too regarding the fact that we live miles and miles away. It is approximately 6,463 miles from Auckland to Los Angeles.
By the month of March, year 2010, we started having serious conversations. One day, I just let go of my fears and doubts, and told him, “I think I love you.” He answered back with “I love you too Eena”. (OMG!! My heart was pounding, my hands are shaking, and I kept on reading his reply, “I love you too Eena… I love you too Eena… I love you too Eena…”)
The love team “SephEena” was born on that day. :) Our love story on how we met or found each other was one of the most common love story that I know right now – love made by Facebook. Although we are not the only couples started from a friend request, I admit that I was a bit hesitant before to share how we became lovers. I apologize for that my dear Joseph, because we met in a very unusual way and I was afraid that my relatives would criticize me. Some of them even think that we are just playing around and this relationship might not work. They said that possibly because they used to the old ways courting scene. Before, a boy has to woo or court the girl to win her heart, and serenading the girl was the hip that time. Oh well, that was their generation. We live in our own generation now….. a generation different from my grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, auntie or uncle.
Even though we just met through Facebook, we are not taking each other for granted and I can say that our love is real. It hurts to know that sometimes you get the feeling of no one believes in us but we are fighting for it, we are making it work, and we have our own plans to see each other for the first time. Today, it is our two years anniversary. We might not be celebrating it together but we are happy. Yes we’ve been through a lot of fights, misunderstandings, arguments, forgiveness and sorry, all of that make our relationship stronger. We are indeed fortunate that we made it this far.
Happy 2nd Anniversary Joseph! I love you. :)
Two years and still counting…..