The Engagement

I shall be getting engaged to Neisha Machado, one of my oldest and dearest friends later this month. Our relationship often reminds me of the words of William Parish (Anthony Hopkins) to his daughter in the movie Meet Joe Black (1998).
"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back... To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived."

I'm sure at the end of our lives we will both confidently be able to say that we had made the journey and fallen deeply in love.