Touching Spring - Love Blossoms and Bears Fruit
Love at first is like spring flowers blooming, often bringing very fresh experiences. Not only the first fluttering emotions, love stories when people are young, contain many feelings.
“I met him when I was in high school, it was like “love at first sight” I had feelings for him from the first time we met. But at that time, maybe because I was young and not destined to be together, we didn’t become a couple. After that, we both had our own lives and other relationships, so we didn’t contact each other anymore” - Pham Phuong Trinh (24 years old) recounted her love journey with her husband Viet Anh (25 years old).
Phuong Trinh and Viet Anh on a trip to Japan.
It seemed like the spring of the two of them had passed and that love would forever be a beautiful memory. But once again, Phuong Trinh touched the spring of her eighteen years old. She was moved: “Three years later, I accidentally saw his Instagram account and also playfully followed it but then unfollowed it right after. Surprisingly, he followed me back immediately and even texted me to ask how I was. At that time, we were both single. We decided to “get to know each other again” to see if we loved each other or not.”
The fruit of love helped Phuong Trinh and Viet Anh officially become a family when she received the good news about the presence of baby Ichi - their child. Viet Anh is a dancer, he participated in the Street Dance program and had to fly to Saigon to film. The day Phuong Trinh gave birth was also the day Viet Anh had to go to the airport. The night before giving birth, Phuong Trinh was exhausted waiting for labor. But giving birth was not that easy and quick.
All night, she clung to the bed in pain, while Viet Anh looked on sadly, blaming himself for not being able to help Phuong Trinh with that pain. Then several long hours passed with sweaty contractions but Trinh still could not give birth naturally. She switched to a cesarean section - the thing she feared the most.
She thought that after giving birth, she would temporarily forget about her husband having to go to the exam and breathe a sigh of relief, but no, Phuong Trinh sat up and asked Viet Anh why he was still here and why he hadn't gone to the airport yet. The tears streaming down the pale face of the girl who had just given birth were proof of the innocent yet intense feelings of youth.
The young couple welcomed their first child together.
“During the time we got to know each other, we had to be in a long-distance relationship. There were times when we argued, there were times when we were bored, but we never thought about breaking up. The most important thing in this relationship is trust because without it, we wouldn’t have given each other a second chance. Without trust, we wouldn’t have been able to be in a long-distance relationship for so long.” Spring often brings people such gentle, delicate emotions.
Summer in front of the yard - The brilliant excitement in me
When people grow up, love is like entering summer, love is ripe like fruit on a tree. It also brings the sweet taste of people at the end of their youth. Quynh Tram (31 years old) shares a very simple but joyful love story when she has reached adulthood.
Quynh Tram, a university lecturer, met Vu Anh (31 years old - construction engineer) at a primary school reunion. They seemed to just pass each other like old friends, but they gave each other the opportunity to get to know each other better.
After many years, Quynh Tram and Vu Anh met again at the class reunion.
Both of them experienced the ups and downs of love, especially Quynh Tram, she thought it would be difficult to love anyone again. However, Vu Anh, a gentle, shy construction engineer, brought her very gentle emotions that she thought she could not find again for a long time.
At an older age, it seems like they will love in a different way, but Vu Anh and his girlfriend still maintain the same simple dating habits as when they were students. They go out to eat on the sidewalk, drink water, and walk under the starry sky.
On windy nights, knowing that Quynh Tram craved snacks, Vu Anh did not hesitate to travel more than 20 kilometers from work just to stop by a familiar shop to buy his girlfriend a bag of hot chestnuts and then hurried back to work.
In the cool afternoon breeze, the sunlight shines on the corner of the yard where Quynh Tram sits drinking water, she shares: "My husband is a gentle person, knows how to listen, is patient, tolerant and loyal. Having the same interests is a good thing, there is no need to share too many interests because each person is a different individual, however a few common interests can bring two people closer together".
Meeting again after sixteen years on a class reunion day in the middle of a hot summer afternoon, Quynh Tram and Anh Vu decided to get married a year later, also on a hot summer afternoon. Finally, little Bon came to the couple on a hot summer day.
Finally, baby Bon came to the couple on a sunny summer day.
Suddenly filled with strong emotions, Quynh Tram hummed the poem she had written: “The poem "Sending my heart to the white clouds" is a poem I wrote for both you and our child. In it, I tell a little about my love story, a whisper to my husband.”
We meet:
Sixteen years later…
I was a teacher.
Who enters the rose garden?
Several missed appointments, who knows when it will happen?
It seems that summer witnessed and marked Quynh Tram's small, simple love, full of connection and fulfillment: "The time the two of us met again was when he was 27 years old and I was 26 years old, both of us had experienced a love that was deeply engraved in our hearts, and we thought we could never open our hearts to anyone again. But when we met again and expressed our feelings for each other, we both realized that love never dies, even when we were nearly 30 years old. She was still moved, had anger, confusion, and happiness like a young girl falling in love for the first time. Both childish and passionate."
Autumn comes and the leaves change - Sharing a little love
In the early years of entering the age of forty, love stories are tinged with a golden color like the changing leaves of autumn. Taking advantage of the pleasant weather of the rainy day, I invited Mr. Chu Xuan Hieu (45 years old) and Ms. Tran Thuy Tien (33 years old) - Mr. Hieu's wife to talk about the feelings of two people who have been in love for a long time.
Mr. Xuan Hieu was originally a great chef. When he was young, he had to travel here and there to learn how to cook delicious dishes. He went to China to study and worked everywhere. During that time, he and Ms. Thuy Tien were not close to each other, but they still "kept the fire" of their love passionately through the way they cared for and looked after each other.
Mr. Xuan Hieu and Ms. Thuy Tien have spent a very long time together,
With Mr. Xuan Hieu and Ms. Thuy Tien having spent a very long time together, they deeply understand that love and the bond between two independent individuals need a lot of respect and understanding to last: "When in love, anything is fine, but when getting married, you have to seriously learn about the other person's shortcomings. If you love their strengths, you also have to clearly consider their shortcomings. They are the same, they also accept your strengths and weaknesses." - Ms. Thuy Tien smiled.
Mr. Xuan Hieu also smiled and looked at his wife with affection, adding a few jokes. He confided that he was very lucky to have married Ms. Thuy Tien. She was originally a student of Western medicine, but because she followed her husband, she quit her job at the hospital to take over her husband's family's traditional medicine business. Witnessing her hard work taking care of the children, managing the house and business with the other hand, Mr. Xuan Hieu tried even harder to help his wife feel less tired.
Ms. Thuy Tien shared: "During the time of getting married, I looked at what I lacked and what my husband's family was like so that I could balance and change accordingly."
Mr. Xuan Hieu believes that his wife's love is extremely great and practical when she voluntarily sacrifices her career to stay home and take care of everything.
Even though they have been in love for more than ten years, the two still often joke around, making each other feel comfortable instead of bored with their long-term relationship.
Mr. Xuan Hieu believes that his wife's love is extremely great and practical when she voluntarily sacrifices her career to stay home and take care of everything: "Sometimes in love, two people must understand, sympathize and know how to ignore things that are not as they want instead of nitpicking, then they can go a long way together."
He also emphasized: “Trust is the most important thing!”. It can be seen that love does not need to be noisy or too grand, love that comes from a sincere heart and the desire to share and help each other in difficult times is a love worth cherishing.
Warm Winter - Reviewing the Love Letter
The last story that Travellive wants to tell is the romantic love story of Ms. Hanh and Mr. Manh Quynh when they were in their sixties.
Talking with Huyen Trang (32 years old) - the eldest daughter of the family, the reporter learned more about the emotional and beautiful love story: "According to my parents' love story, my father met my mother because they were friends in a group of uncles and aunts of the same age called Tu Nguyen. In the past, the elders were very careful about choosing a son-in-law. My grandmother chased away everyone who came to her house to court my mother. I don't know why but my father accepted them. They dated for a year and then got married. But my father always joked with my mother that she passed by Cau Dat street and saw him playing the violin, so he fell in love with him and moved in together."
Coming to Uncle Manh Quynh's house as a daughter-in-law, Ms. Bich Hanh lived happily in the protective arms of her delicate husband.
The first day she came to Uncle Manh Quynh’s house as a daughter-in-law, Bich Hanh lived happily in the protective arms of her thoughtful husband. Knowing that his wife was not used to riding a motorbike, Uncle Manh Quynh woke up early almost 365 days a year to take his wife to work, except on holidays.
During those years, the violinist never let his wife do the dishes even for a single day. Both being teachers, having gone through difficult times, the two were very conscious of maintaining a happy and peaceful family with unconditional tolerance and sacrifice.
Up to now, their love story is still extremely beautiful when Ms. Hanh and her husband often go out together on dates and talk about life. It seems that in their old age, they do not feel the coldness of age and soul but warm each other through their burning love.
Huyền Trang emotionally gave me the old letters, stained with time, wrapped very carefully. Inside the letters, each sincere line from Uncle Mạnh Quỳnh to his aunt:
“Dear Bich Hanh…
Dear, you must be surprised, right? Why didn’t I tell you but had to write these lines? I understand, we are close to each other, not thousands of miles apart. My dear, until now I still can’t understand myself, it’s so strange. The questions of why, why can’t I talk to the person I love…”
(The letter is 34 years old)
Love letters from 34 years ago are still carefully stored in plastic.
Love letters from 34 years ago are still carefully stored in plastic.
In the length of human life, love stories also span thousands of different emotions. But it seems that every love story leaves an impression and evokes deep emotions inside each of us. From the spring of a gentle touch to a tight hug under the shimmering summer shade. Then suddenly we catch each other's affectionate gaze, somewhere in the gentle scent of autumn rice, leaning our heads on each other's shoulders to warm up when winter comes. No matter how stormy life is, love is always a way to return.
