Be part of our love story
Do me a favour, whilst you’re reading this, listen to this song: Samskeyti by Sigur Ros.
It all started a few months back, I randomly got talking to this guy online. He made the first move & sent me a follow request. I checked him out before I accepted - I don’t usually accept follow requests from people I don’t know but something told me to accept. I can’t put my finger on exactly what it was, but something made me click accept.
What happened after that moment, is what I like to think of, as one of the purest love stories to grace this earth. Two souls that have so much love to give, two souls that just want to love & be loved.
Just so you know, I would love to sit here & go into more detail but I’m going to ask you for your help in creating something beautiful & I don’t want him to come across this story online, know that I’m the author, that this is our love story & spoil the big surprise.
I’ll do my best to paint a picture of our love story, to get you hooked & onboard with me, without giving away too much information! (Wish me luck!)
We are two people, situated thousands of miles apart, on completely different continents with a sh*t tonne of water between us. We text constantly, we make the time difference work. We have at least one video call every day. We send each other sentimental gifts in the post (which by the way, take what feels like FOREVER to arrive because of the distance between us!) We listen, we support each other, we care for each other, we send each other damn crazy with lust & we laugh daily. We have an amazing level of communication & we’re connected on a level that we’ve both never experienced with anyone else.
Usually by this point, in any normal relationship, we’d have been able to lock eyes in person, to feel each other’s touch, smell their scent & enjoy each other’s company (and god damn kiss etc!...) But with COVID looming over us, we are forced to wait with no definite date of when we can be together in person.
Every day that passes, we see as one day closer to finally being able to have our time together, to see each other in person, rather than through a screen. To hear our voices first hand, rather than through the car bluetooth, or earphones or through the speaker of a phone. One day closer to being able to touch each other, to be held in each other’s arms & breath that sigh of relief that we finally made it to each other.
We know what kind of life we’re creating together. It’s a partnership built on honesty & transparency. It’s built on vulnerability & trust, passion & intimacy, love & lust. Inspiration & determination & above all else, to live together, in peace & contentment with each other.
Okay so by now, I hope I’ve got you a little hooked & here’s the part where I ask for your help… It’s not a scam or one of them ‘crowd funding’ things, I don’t want nor need money, I just need some help by way of people showing up to a location to take photos & videos, out of the kindness of your heart. To document something for us in a way that is as raw and unadulterated as the way that we feel for each other.
I have this vision, that on that fine ass day, when we finally get to meet, I get to the airport, make my way to the arrivals dept & there he is, waiting for me, but unbeknown to him, there’s a big secret. I suppose you could call it a photography flashmob. I know that on that day, we will both be alone (in a sense that we will both be travelling alone to meet each other) By the time this day arrives, we will have spent SO many hours on our phones, looking at each other through a screen, that I can assure you, our phones will be in our pockets & we will just want to experience this moment in reality.
With that said, I do still want to have something other than my own memory to capture this magical event & that’s where you come in. I want you to turn up, with your phone or your camera & just capture that moment when we finally meet. I want you to be there as just another person at the airport waiting to pick someone up or take a flight, & when you see me or him or us, help us capture that moment for ever, help us be able to relive the moment, be part of our love story.
So, I’ve put it out there to the world, to the wonderful thing that is the internet & to the magical, always listening universe.
I’ll be forever grateful if you help me with this, whether that’s by coming to the airport to take photos & videos or whether its simply by reading this post & sharing it so as many people as possible can be onboard.
I plan to keep posting about our love story, but in a way where he won’t know it’s our love story – Which will be difficult because it feels like one in a million, but I’ll do my best.
Once I have a date & flights booked, which will be as soon as COVID restrictions lift, I will share the location, date & time, what we’ll be wearing etc, so you can easily identify us, then it’s just a case of sitting back & letting the good energy do its work.
I’m going to use the hashtag #bepartofourlovestory as a way of keeping this thing moving (hopefully it does!)
I’ve also set up social media accounts on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter with the username bepartofourlovestory (I've never used Twitter so bear with me on that one! In fact, I've never made a post on reddit either!)
I truly hope to see you on that day, this has been one of my best ideas yet, I’ll be forever grateful if you help me make it work.
Please & Thank You.
#bepartofourlovestory