Metropolitan Diary - Happily Ever After

Dear Diary:

March 13th was a sunny morning and my friends and I were on the subway headed to their wedding at City Hall. This was the first of two weddings. The second would take place in Colombia, where most of their family still lives.

The bride was wearing a wonderful white dress, so she was catching glances left and right. Amongst the laughs and jokes, one graceful woman wouldn't stop staring at us. Maybe she was curious about why we were bouncing between Spanish and English.

Before we hopped off the train at Chambers St, she, out of the blue, scratched something on a folded piece of paper and handed it to them. We got off the train and opened the note:

Give up making each other wrong. Be committed to each others dreams. Give your relationship up to a purpose bigger than the two of you. Create a masterpiece. Best wishes.

In the blink of an eye the doors closed between us. There was no time to say “thank you,” but we made eye contact and that was enough to say it all.