mate.
I'm loving this qotw; have been thinking for ages how good it would be to have a positive one for a change, instead of everyone moaning.

Anyway, I like your story, and wanted to just maybe help out with a bit of perspective.

I was engaged recently, to an amazing woman. I knew from the day I met her that we would be married; we were perfect. We travelled to sixteen countries, climbed mountains, ran (and swam and biked and skiied) races together, learned new languages and basically were annoyingly perfect.

I proposed in Damascus at the dawn prayer, and put a ring on her finger on the summit of Kilimanjaro at sunrise. So, as you can imagine, I was pretty cut up when she dumped me, by phone, again but finally for real, from another continent. I lost my job, my home, my friends and was pretty sure that that was pretty much the end of that.

It's awful... it's fucking awful. No-one needs to tell you how awful, because you're there right now. What I want to tell you about, is what happened next.

One year later, I have met a beautiful, kind, generous and loving woman. We have built a new house together, I won a scholarship and took an MBA and passed with distinction. I have a string of interviews for awesome jobs and am enjoying our beautiful little baby turning into a wonderful little girl.

It is simply extraordinary what can happen in only a year from what you think is the end of your life. Your ability to turn the complete shits of a day into something wonderful, based on the kindness of strangers, tells me you are the kind of person open to experience and able to turn mere luck into serendipity.

Believe in yourself, take some chances and look to the rest of your life; it is going to be wonderful.
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 22:16, 1 reply)

Wow.
I'm quite overwhelmed. Another example of the kindness of strangers. I thank you sir, and if I ever get to meet you I shall buy you a pint.

Good luck to you, your wife and family for the rest of forever.

*manhugs*
(R. Jimlad twitter.com/sirmarkymark, Sat 7 Aug 2010, 19:46, closed)