It’s our, twenty-seventh year of marriage together, and, we’re, still going on strong, very much in love, as we once were from the very beginning when we first wed, translated…
I’d been married twenty-seven years to date, the mahogany wedding, I’d heard, that this tree loved the tropics, and so, I’d, used this excuse, and gone on vacation to Kaohsiung to find it.
The mahoganies are used to be made into swords that were used, to ward off evil spirits in the olden days, or used as a sculpting material for the figures of the deities. There was an article written by the writer, Lin, about how raising this tree can help calm the mind and the heart; taking after nature’s constantly watering, to allow the tree to live, in the uncertainties, to find its own water sources, then, rooting itself down, and humans are like so, “Those who lived in the uncertainties of life are better at weathering through the trials of life too.”
The twenty-seven years’ worth of marriage is like this tree, with the endless uncertainties, we’d needed to face together, and, we’d become, strong through the process of dealing with these conflicts and difficulties in our lives, the tree became, colored, the center of the tree, that redness of life.
After I’d found the tree, he, whom I’d, nicknamed, “The princes of watermelons”, brought over two pieces of watermelon, handed one to me, and the other one was, kissing him.
I’d asked, “Is the watermelon sweet? From zero to ten, what score?”
He’d pointed at the skin, “this is zero”, then, moved his finger toward the tip of the triangular piece, said, “This is, ten. The closer to the heart, the sweeter.”
Hmmmmmmmmmm, just like that beautiful, marble patterned center of mahogany, like some people, some things, like the twenty-seven years we’d weathered through together, to this date.
There’s, that lack of the passionate love in this marriage, but, more of that comfort, of being with the right one, and, this woman found the man she was meant to live out the rest of her life with, and they’d been, together for twenty-seven whole years, and still counting, that’s amazing, to see how marriages CAN last like that!
illustrationfromUDN.com…
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