I looked up from my laptop across the living room at you, your head buried in your laptop. Once again, we were together physically in the same room, but mentally and emotionally, we may as well have been on different continents. What happened to us? Once our passion was so strong, all we could do was think about each other lately though we were going through the motions.
We had become more committed to our work than we were to each other. In the chase for professional and monetary success, we forgot that feeling we had when all we had was each other. The anticipation of seeing each other’s smile. The warmth of being in each other presence. The safety of being in each other’s embrace and the feel of our lips pressed against each other. We had convinced ourselves that our happiness could be found in a number and that through hard work, we would achieve that number and have everything we wanted in life. Everything that was except what truly made us happy, we forgot about each other.
So, at that moment, I put down my work and walked across the living room, and pushed your laptop aside. Before you could protest, I pulled you close and kissed you like I hadn’t kissed you in a long time. Every bit of passion I had kept hidden from you over the years. Every time I had wanted to tell you how much I loved you but didn’t because I was too busy was all in that single kiss. A single kiss that joined two souls that once were inseparable back together.
You looked at me, a bit confused, and then asked where did that come from? But before I could respond, you placed a finger on my lips to quiet me and said, you don’t need to say it; your kiss already did, and yes, I missed us too.
From that day on, we have never taken each other for granted. We have never let work or the pursuit of money come between us. Sure, we still strived for professional success, but we made sure to keep that chase in perspective. Because after all, my love for you is the biggest success of my life.