5 years, how do you measure?

Yesterday Erick and I hit the five year mark on our relationship. I understand that this metric will be disposed off after our impending nuptials, but although the milestone passed with neither of us noticing, it provokes deep thoughts.

For a twenty five year old, the time I've spent with Erick has been a fifth of my life. As we enter into forever-dom, I contemplate the ways one can maintain self when intertwined so tightly with another. In the end, I guess it is not the measure of self, but whether you are happy. That is really all that matters. Applied to wedding planning, it is the same.

Small thoughts for a quiet-late afternoon.