A Love That Never Confessed

They seemed so mismatched, as if one belonged in heaven and the other on earth. Yet these two people, who seemed completely wrong for each other, came together and stayed together for a lifetime. He was a world swimming champion, dazzling yet lonely inside. He wanted to reach the summit again, but suffered one defeat after another and faced doubts from the whole world. She was an ordinary but ambitious middle school teacher. No matter how hard reality hit, she never gave up on her dream of becoming a writer. She was a fool who would risk everything for love, while he was a fool who would try to turn his back on the whole world just to be with her. “My parents don’t like you. They can’t accept you yet, not because you aren’t good enough, but because they don’t know you well enough.” Those words made her decide to spend the rest of her life with him. The best kind of love is growing old together, and becoming better together.