This weekend I proposed to Fione Lim by the starlight on my late Grandfather's lake. The milky way was visible making it one of the most romantic things I have ever experienced. The waters were calm and serene, the stars bright and numerous. I told her that I loved her and I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me. She started crying and said "Yes!" This is a big step for us to be taking, especially since we have not even spent an entire year together yet, but I know that this is what I want for my life and that I will be happy with her no matter where else life takes me as long as I have her. She has been such a loving, caring, supportive, and beautiful influence on my life since we have been together. She loves my family, as they love her, and she treats them as her own flesh and blood. In all my wildest dreams I could not even imagine how amazing she is and how our story would unfold. I never thought that I could find someone like her, and even further marry someone at her level of amazingness. Every day that passes is another day closer to the day I can truly say that I am hers and she is mine, and my excitement builds more and more. I know that some people might think that it has gone too fast, that we don't know each other well enough, or that we are foolish for doing this, but honestly I feel that this is what I am meant to do regardless of social conventions and expectations. I also know that there is something to what they are saying, but I have had the privilege and honor to be able to feel something so deep down inside, so life affirming, and so true that nothing else seems to matter that I can confidently and calmly let them know that it is just something they simply will not understand. Those uncertainties may be rightly placed on a couple who does not so thoroughly examine each and every aspect of necessity before acting. The connection that we share is unlike anything I have every experienced and continues to grow each day through the happy days and especially in the not so happy days. I love her so completely and utterly fantastically that it often baffles my own mind. She is truly for me and I for her. I love you Fione Lim, love of my life, spark of my enthusiasm, driving force of my will, mutual supporter of affirmation and affections, my dearest, my love.
Shane Wolff
