A friend just asked me a question that i had to think about before answering.

“Do you have best day of your life?”

Small sentence but a huge question. How do you define a best day of your life. Does it have romance, is it getting a promotion or having saved for a long time to get to go somewhere you have always wanted to go. Is it finding a long lost friend or family member? Getting married to the love of your life? You see, little question, huge weight

She had no answer as while she had good days there was never a best day. No one outstanding day that stood out above the good days and I can understand that, other than that one best day I have none that come even remotely close.

I remember my best day well even though it would have been 12 years ago now. I even have a photo of the day and the lady that made it the way that it was.

You know how it happens, love at first sight in the movies and all of the romantic baggage that comes with it. It really happened. We had met that day and she was the cousin of a friend over for the weekend to come to a function that I was also going to. We just clicked and at dinner there was the innocent brush of our legs together, a quick touch on the hands and cleaning close to each other to talk. Thinking back we might as well been the last two people on the planet for all that we cared for anyone but each other around us. Love at first sight. We spent the night and the weekend together before she had to fly home

Of course nothing was easy. She lived interstate and it was in the days before I was online and had email so we used to run up huge phone bills and spend all our money on weekend trips to see each other. And we wrote letters, long gushy letters to each other and I could always rely a couple of days a week on getting a love letter from her.

Sadly just as our relationship was the movie like love at first sight, so was the end of our relationship. Distance eventually did the job of breaking us up, she wanted me to move there, I wanted her to move here and in the end it broke us up.

Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, that day we meet was the best day of my life and the yard stick that I have held to every relationship since. And I wouldnt mind having another day like that one day.

I often find myself wondering what ever happened to her. When I worked in Melbourne in 2002 I took a drive past her old place but didnt stop. At the time it would have been six years after the break up and you cant live in the past, you have to move forward. What we had was the best but we would never get it back. So I never stopped.

These days i am a different person than i was back then and i don’t just mean older and fatter. I know that real love exists and i am determined to find it again. One day soon i hope. I would like a new best day please. I know its out there on a calendar somewhere and some time

This was a sponsored post but while I was paid for the links, the story contained within is mine. And yes, once I was that young.

Tags: love romance love letters love lost

Update: I am told that it was a question from Big Brother tonight. Still my best ever day!

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