This I Believe
Imagine this: you find a genie in a bottle and one of your wishes can be to change anything about your past. Would you do it? As for me, I wouldn’t change a single thing.
I was born with a disability. Now, we are not going to go into deep with what my condition is or any of that medical stuff, it would take far too long. The point is, there were people in the medical field who told my parents that people like me don’t live very long. Well guess what? I’m nineteen and I ain’t going anywhere. Surprise.
I wasn’t accepted to any kindergarten. People were scared of me. That being said, when I was six, I started going to Vilnius “Versmė” secondary school. Little did I know, that school would change my life.
It all began September 1st, 2006. I went to school, holding mom’s hand. I was wearing a princess dress, my hair in pigtails. There was this little guy. He wasn’t someone you could spot in the crowd, to be honest. Now, we didn’t become friends instantly, not at all. In fact, all I remember from my interactions with this boy until third grade were fist fights. Third grade rolls around, we become very good friends….and this is where the craziest ride of my life started. All third grade, we were inseparable. Fighting imaginary evil forces in school hallways, singing Eurovision songs until people were shouting at us to shut up… I had my first kiss on the very last day of third grade and it was him.
The relationship in question was not something you see in movies, all romantic and stuff. Fourth to tenth grade, we broke up like five times. It was, as my favorite YouTube star Lily Singh would call it, a Taylor Swift song from hell. During that time, I’ve had like four major crushes and guess what? Not a single one of them worked out. I was constantly friend-zoned as I was doing the exact same thing with someone who loved me all along. On December 21st,2015, as I was about to give up on love altogether, he asked me to be his girlfriend for the last time ever and I went like “screw it, let’s do it”. Today is October 1st, 2018. This man is studying international business management with French at Northumbria University and December 21stwill be our 3-year anniversary.
Why am I telling you all this? For two reasons: first of all, if I didn’t have my disability, I would most likely have ended up in a different school and never met him. Secondly, how would he have known he has to not give up on me? Well, he says he just wanted to. I like to believe it was something much more powerful telling him that. Some call it God, I call it destiny. We just had to end up together. I believe that there is a much stronger force behind all of our choices in life and everything that happens in our lives is pre-planned and for a reason. This I believe.
I was born with a disability. Now, we are not going to go into deep with what my condition is or any of that medical stuff, it would take far too long. The point is, there were people in the medical field who told my parents that people like me don’t live very long. Well guess what? I’m nineteen and I ain’t going anywhere. Surprise.
I wasn’t accepted to any kindergarten. People were scared of me. That being said, when I was six, I started going to Vilnius “Versmė” secondary school. Little did I know, that school would change my life.
It all began September 1st, 2006. I went to school, holding mom’s hand. I was wearing a princess dress, my hair in pigtails. There was this little guy. He wasn’t someone you could spot in the crowd, to be honest. Now, we didn’t become friends instantly, not at all. In fact, all I remember from my interactions with this boy until third grade were fist fights. Third grade rolls around, we become very good friends….and this is where the craziest ride of my life started. All third grade, we were inseparable. Fighting imaginary evil forces in school hallways, singing Eurovision songs until people were shouting at us to shut up… I had my first kiss on the very last day of third grade and it was him.
The relationship in question was not something you see in movies, all romantic and stuff. Fourth to tenth grade, we broke up like five times. It was, as my favorite YouTube star Lily Singh would call it, a Taylor Swift song from hell. During that time, I’ve had like four major crushes and guess what? Not a single one of them worked out. I was constantly friend-zoned as I was doing the exact same thing with someone who loved me all along. On December 21st,2015, as I was about to give up on love altogether, he asked me to be his girlfriend for the last time ever and I went like “screw it, let’s do it”. Today is October 1st, 2018. This man is studying international business management with French at Northumbria University and December 21stwill be our 3-year anniversary.
Why am I telling you all this? For two reasons: first of all, if I didn’t have my disability, I would most likely have ended up in a different school and never met him. Secondly, how would he have known he has to not give up on me? Well, he says he just wanted to. I like to believe it was something much more powerful telling him that. Some call it God, I call it destiny. We just had to end up together. I believe that there is a much stronger force behind all of our choices in life and everything that happens in our lives is pre-planned and for a reason. This I believe.