day 89-a glitch in the system...

No relationship is perfect...not my mom and dad's, my brother's, my aunt's, my friend's, my staff's, and everyone else's. I never knew anyone to be in a perfect relationship and i don't think i would every see one or be in one. At some point in time the line would hit a snag, the calm waters would give way to rough seas, and the smooth ride would be jarred by potholes along the way (If you are in the philippine highways, prepare for a bumpy ride because there won't just be potholes). No matter how you try to avoid misunderstandings, it just has it's ways of finding you. No relationship is safe from it and definitely not mine and ying ying's. It is not a matter of how but when it would happen. But it doesn't mean you can't do anything about it. Rebounding and learning from those misunderstandings would be the more important thing just like learning from your mistakes to avoid committing them in the future. Our relationship is definitely a work in progress...still a long long way to go and we both know that.

The odds of us working this out it stacked against us. We have barely been together for a few months and we are already thrown into this long distance relationship with time difference and  stresses from work. Hell, throw in natural and cultural differences for good measure because she is Chinese who grew up in the US and I am a Filipino who have been in the Philippines virtually my whole life. Our different backgrounds seem too complicated for us to work this out. When things don't work out, we could always have these excuses to put the blame on. But that's not how we want it to be, that's not how we roll (to make it sound more western). Odds may be stacked against us but were both too stubborn and too hard headed to give in to these problems. I am proud how we deal with our "snags" and "glitches", we don't let them get us, instead, we talk about it...calmly and intelligently. We know we won't get anywhere if we put pride first instead of understanding. And admittedly, i had a hard time with this because sometimes, i am too proud of a person when it comes to arguments. but i know pride has no room in this relationship so i had to swallow it. 

Our talks would be the one to sustain our relationship in the next few months. It would help us update each other, clear misunderstandings, mitigate the longings that we feel for each other, and more importantly, our way of letting each other know that we are there for each other through thick and thin. Right now, i feel highly about us, i feel there's no problem that we can't solve as long as we stick together. I hope that would be true forever because if it is, I could be the happiest man alive :)