Connected to my soul.

In the early days of the 2go chatting App, I was an ardent user of the App. In a particular year, I had two experiences on the App that will never leave my memory.

The first experience had a kind of a negative effect on me for spending more than normal time on the App. On most days, I would get prepared for reading during my examination in college only to end up spending the whole night chatting. Before I discover each day that I was wasting too much time chatting instead of reading, I would already be dozing. At that point I would return from the students common room back to my hostel room to sleep. The result at the end of the semester was disappointing. I got my least semester grade in that particular semester. The following semester, I corrected myself and studied hard to amend my grades.

Something was responsible for my action. I was connected to a lady that virtually made 2go an abode better than any other real or virtual platform. Once I typed "hi" and I got a "hello" as a reply from the pretty damsel, I was ready to forgo every other thing including reading till the departing message of "goodnight" came from her. If you see me from my own side, you could liken me to a madman because even "how are you" from her was funny and you could see me laughing as I typed my reply.

We met through my friend, Innocent. One evening, I was chatting with Innocent and I asked him to help me with the username of any of his friends that could keep me company via chatting. That was how he sent me the lady's username. I immediately chatted with her and after questioning me on how I got her username, she replied to my chatting request when I explained how I got her username from our mutual friend.

That was the genesis of our journey. After some time, I humbly requested her number in order to go beyond chatting to hear her voice. She obliged and once I called and heard the voice from the other side, I was emotionally connected.

Our chatting since that point was geared towards self improvement academically and our plans after graduation. It was during one of such discussions that I hinted that my prayer was to see someone like her to marry after school. I got a reply of "hmmm". Perhaps she already knew where I was heading to. I was so obsessed with chatting with her that what determined my going offline was if she was offline.

I expressed myself in clear terms that I was in love already. She smiled and told me to wait till we meet physically. It wasn't far from our proposed time of meeting at our hometown. Both of our institutions of learning were having a break at the same time. I couldn't wait to see her and get the much awaited reply from her.

My waiting period came to an end when we eventually met at home. At our meeting, she told me that she was just recovering from a heartbreak and that going into another relationship was the least thing that she would do. I misunderstood this reply to mean an acceptance. I was happy and overjoyed. After our departure, I sent her an appreciation message for accepting me. Her reply to that message made it clear to me that her initial reply was that she wasn't ready for any relationship.
I was sad but such is life I'd thought and after the reply, I decided to move on.

We were still chatting on 2go but the frequency reduced because she didn't bow to my persuasion. I rediscovered my former self that used to give my priority to my studies. I picked myself up the next semester and I worked hard to close the gap of reduction of my CGPA in the previous semester.

It got to a time, we weren't chatting again and at a point in time, I considered deleting her number when I was pruning my contact list. I however left it with the belief that my story with the lady wasn't a closed chapter of my life.

Three years later, I called her and we reconnected. I decided not to mention the issue of relationship again. I believed that if we were destined to reopen the topic someday, we would. Deep down my heart, I still value and wished to have her like it had ever been during our intense chatting days. We talked for some time and our talking terms faded away again.

One thing that was constant in me was that there was a part of me she had unconsciously taken away with her endearing personality. I was in love with her and it wasn't reciprocated. I didn't get tired but I felt that I should give her her space. I did just that again.

All through this period, I tried to get along with a few other ladies but none worked out. Perhaps I wasn't getting equivalent satisfaction from the character and personality of those that I was coming across.

We didn't talk for another three years. One evening, I decided to reach out to her to hear from her after three years. We discussed and from the discussion, we agreed to meet at our hometown during the Christmas of that year.
We met as planned and the discussion of our relationship came up again. This time around, her interest connected with mine for the first time in almost a decade.

That was how we started dating and two years later, we got married after mutual acceptance by our families. The lady is my amiable wife.