In just a few days Mrs. Planet Kirby and I will have been married for 12,000 days. Not to be confused with our Wedding Anniversary, this auspicious day is merely the counting forward of 12,000 days since we said, "I do."
Now some of you might be asking, "What moron keeps count of the number of days since they got married?" Truth be told, I found this website where you enter two dates and it calculates the number of days between them. Pretty simple. Truth be told again, I thought it was pretty cool when the number of days came up so close to 12,000.
Now before we got married we dated for several years and while there is some debate as to the actual date of when I first asked my future bride to go out with me (actually my friend, Ronnie Whitacre, made the phone call for me) back in the eighth grade, I know one thing for sure; when I fell in love with her, I fell hard. Well, at least, as hard as a boy in the eighth grade can fall. Ah, those early years. Due to the varying age of Planet Kirby readers and the fact that my children sometimes read my blog, I won't go into any details, but let's just say that my sweetie and I did everything together. Falling in love was and is so much fun.
Now some of you might be asking another question, "Just how did Mrs. Planet Kirby put up with you for so long?" That's a good question and I wonder about that myself sometimes. But an even better question for you to ask would be, "How did you know you found the right person to spend the rest of your life with?" Even though you shouldn't ask me a question that ends with a preposition, I will give you the answer to your question. One of the secrets about our long time marriage has been that we've never worried about whether we found the right person or not. We have always loved the person that we found. When times got tough, we learned to love the other person even more.
We have always lived by the fact that God determines who walks into your life, it's up to us to decide how you let them impact your life. In our case, we decided to refuse to ever let each other go. Even when I was at my stupidest and she was perfecting her perfection, we refused to let anything that life threw at us to get in the way of us loving one another unconditionally.
So there it is. The story of Bill and Donna. Two young lovers with nothing better to do. Well, we're not so young anymore... Maybe I'll end with - There's the story of Grammy and Pappy. Two fifty something lovers with nothing better to do. Yeah, that's it.
Be Well.
Bill
