Looking back who would have thought something as simply as sunshine hitting a blackboard would change my life forever.
Confused?
Not me, I have been in awe the last 7 years because of that.
It all began in the fall of 1994 at Centennial College, Progress Campus, room P1-05 for Mathematics of Financing. Due to being farsighted, and reluctant at the time to wearing glasses, I sat front row on the left hand side of the class. As fate would have it the sun would shine hitting the right side of the backboard which would not have been so much of a problem if the professor did not make it a habit of writing on the right hand side of the board.
Looking over my right shoulder to find a seat in the middle I noticed a pretty girl sitting one row just short of the back of the room. Instead of sitting of sitting in the front row, I decided to bend the rules and sit beside the prettiest girl in the class at the back, luckily for me the room only had about 6 rows. I figured the time in class would pass by better if I had something beautiful to look at. (Now the class has become my life and the beautiful girl is now my wife) No one was sitting beside her either on the left or right, but there were 5 guys sitting behind her competing for her attention. (Ah competition, it never ends.)
We talked and time flied by while we were having fun. Mathematics of Financing was the hardest class to understand and master (I did not get the credit) but every morning it was the class I looked forward to being, simply because of the pretty girl now sitting beside me had become with each passing moment more and more beautiful, not just to look at but also to be with.
I remember the time when my English class one day was cancelled because the professor was not there. To my surprise out walks the pretty girl from my Math class out of her English class across from my English class looking frustrated. She found her English professor boring and was trying to kill time. Asking me what I planed on doing with my free time, she joined me in the cafeteria and when she learned that I would working on my poetry, she seemed shocked. "You write poetry? Can I see? " she said. I decided to let her see it, trusting my inner feelings to her. When she asked if she could take it home to look at, my trust in her was being stretched because she had the originals. She was delighted in my work and I was bashful of her compliments.
We would walk and talk through the hall ways. Then I would walk her to the bus stop and eventually walked her home street before finally gathering the courage to ask her out on a date. I remember our first date, a walk to Scarborough Town Centre to watch the movie "Only You" with Robert Downy Jr. and Melissa Torme for the 4:00pm show after school. What I remember most about the movie was listening to the lyric of Michael Boltons "Once In A Lifetime" when he says, " now and forever, one love that will never end " thinking that maybe this pretty girl will be a love that will never end.
That moment I realized that she was the one I wanted to spend my life with.
Prior to that moment the last three years of my life were filled with the frustrations of failure in my studies, realizing I did not have what it took to get to university, my parents temporary separation, going through the pain of my Fathers illness and death one year before along with the loneliness I felt in that void.
Who would have thought Id be unlucky in cards but begin to be luck in love.
Through that love every person who ever helped me in times of need, leading up to that fall of 1994 became even more special.
Through that love every pain I went through had meaning, it had a purpose because now I had an angel in love with me. Its a feeling I have had ever since.
Through that love, I have meet some wonderful people, her family and friends.
I feel so overwhelmed when I take a moment to look back and then I get excited when I begin to look forward to spending a life with this pretty girl I meet in college who will become my beautiful wife. Her name is Rosanna.
Just cant wait,
Jim
