Describe an experience in your own life where you seem to have touched something much deeper than your ordinary everyday experience.
It’s not everyday that a girl my age gets to MC a wedding. Sure, I agreed to do it knowing well and true the complete significance of the day for the couple but it didn’t strike me that this day, would engrave itself in my soul for life.
30th of August, 2019. Seas of rolling green dotted with grazing cattle and Australian bush merged into one blur outside of my passenger window. I couldn’t tell if this churning feeling inside of my stomach was nervousness or excitement, maybe a mix of both. The rain began to fall a little heavier, tinting the image on the other side of the glass but not staining its beauty in the slightest. As I step outside I am hit with the sweet saviour of mildewed meadows and aged oak. What a sight for sore eyes – that’s until I am greeted by flying makeup brushes and popped champion by a very nerve-struck bride to be. Before we know it, it’s go time.
I’ve never felt more comfortable than I did in this moment, with hundreds of peering eyes waiting for what I had to say next. I grew very familiar with the microphone that night as it begun to mould perfectly into the shape of my palm. All had seemed to be going well, people laughing, crying and coming together as one. Then a magic moment speared me right through the heart – the maid of honours speech. As she described life long memories and her love for the bride I glanced over to my best friend, who with one tear rolling down her face and an unforgettable pout uttered the words “I love you” from the other side of the room. A love like no other filled me whole in this moment, an almost indescribable feeling. I was ambushed as memories soared through me, good and bad. I couldn’t help but think about how this one person had been my rock through it all and remains that way to this second. On this very day, I came to realise the real meaning of love, happiness and friendship, a feeling so much stronger than I had ever felt before.
We continued to dance into the night. Eventually it was just her and I left on the floor, singing our hearts out to old tunes and laughing like we never had before. It was this very day, the 30th of August that my heart was branded with a forever lasting friendship. It was on this day that I realised, the true power of three very simple words, I love you.
Image – taken by myself at the wedding location.
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“Seas of rolling green dotted with grazing cattle and Australian bush merged into one blur outside of my passenger window.”
Such an amazing opening line to a beautiful paragraph! The imagery and emotion conveyed in this single line is unmatched. As a reader, I can already imagine the scene being expressed in this blog.
The blur of the day is captivated in the quick turn of events and the shift in the tone between the beginning and the end of the blog.
As a reader, I felt as if I had experienced the same feeling you had written about. Your writing was succinct yet captured the day perfectly. There was a balance between emotion and setting that perfectly explained the feeling that I felt whilst reading it.
The love written to be shared between two friends was relatable and triggered memories between me and my friends which I hadn’t experienced in a while, especially with COVID running its course.
I could not fault the writing, however I do wish that it was a little longer to fully draw out the moment and emotion. With that being mentioned, the point of the blog is to be a short memo, so it’s definitely something that I could overlook. I suppose it was so well written that I wanted more!
Just to let you know, I completed this last week but was unaware that I had to comment it on your post! 🙂
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