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Story 30
I found her. She will be my wife!
Tünde & Kornél: Every meeting is
unique and cannot be repeated. It is only up to us whether we recognize
in these meetings the possibilities being there only for us and how much
we can utilize them. The chance is given for everybody, but only those
will find the one for whom or for what they are looking for who are searching
honestly and with clean intentions and heart. We consider it important
to mention that we believe in God and finding the right one has been built
on this faith and this faith penetrates our connection from the very beginning.
Our meeting has only been one out of the many, but still different. We
do not believe in accident and we are sure we had to meet. Since borders
divided us, we managed to take first steps towards each other by the internet
among the few possibilities being at our disposal. In life of both of us
a long waiting and a long searching have preceded that moment when we experienced
each other's existence. This first step had a critical importance.
Tünde: I worked as a social worker in my village
Misca / Transylvania. Managing the everyday issues of old people has consumed
my time so that I almost completely forgot my private life. I started to
feel more and more that I am alone. People living around me ( parents,
my brother, friends ) could not make up for that only person who could
be a friend, a mate and a husband at the same time. One day I noticed an
ad in the local newspaper from SzivNet
Dating and Matchmaking Service.
I began to think to answer the ad or not. I did not know if I could utilize
this possibility and this way God would help me or not to find the real
man. Finally I decided to write and let God decide about all further things.
Long months passed without any answers, but later responses
started to arrive. ( I was informed later that the service began its activity
only then. ) However, no partner candidates could find the way to my heart.
The psychical and emotional distances proved to be too big between us.
I did not give up hope, but the thought of remaining alone in the future
made me sad. I did not want to get married at any price, but I only wanted
to find my second half. Waiting was very hard for me, but I had the faith
that it is still worth waiting.
One day I received two letters. One was Kornél's.
I could not read it right away because I had to travel urgently and I only
had time to open the envelope on the train. He was the first who could
touch me, his lines were for me and he wrote about what I also considered
important. I felt warmth inside and I felt he was the one with whom I wanted
to live together. I could hardly believe that it arrived for what I was
so waiting for. Of course, I sent him a reply right away.
Kornél: One of my friends became unemployed
and I browsed employment ads on the internet, perhaps I can find him something.
There I read about a new dating and matchmaking service and I just visited
the site for fun. I read a few ads and I found Tünde's ad there which
awakened my interest. I read it once more and once more again and who knows
how many times later and a so far never experienced feeling deluged me.
" I have found her. She will be my wife. " This certainty grew so strong
inside me that I looked even at myself curiously. I made the necessary
steps to have Tünde's address from the service and soon I wrote her
the first letter. A long silence followed. No reply arrived. I slowly gave
up to receive any answers, but one evening I found a thick envelope with
an unknown handwriting in my mailbox. I had the feeling as if I received
a gift and I could hardly wait to open the envelope.
Tünde: I traveled to Holland and I thought
as soon as I returned home, I would certainly get some answers from Kornél.
I gave him my telephone number so that he could be able to reach me both
at home and in Holland. To my greatest sadness, I got no calls and when
I returned, no letter was waiting for me. To be more exactly, there were
letters from other applicants, but not from Kornél. I got disappointed.
After a long month the first telephone call came. His kind, friendly and
direct voice is still in my ear and it seemed as if we knew each other
for a long time. This short talking remained deeply in me and I was aware
a period had been finished in my life, namely the loneliness and a real,
eternal love began.
Kornél: The letter received from Tünde
has strengthened her picture in me which my first imagination created.
I wish everyone to feel such a good feeling which I experienced then. After
the long waiting suddenly a hope emerged to meet quickly. What extreme
things ! Tünde has crossed the area where I was staying during her
journey, but unfortunately she went away already when I called her, so
this sudden possibility could not be realized. That's why I replied her
by post and I decided to call her back whenever possible.
Tünde & Kornél: Later we understood
that we were not yet ready to accept each other completely then and we
were glad that this meeting could not be realized.
Kornél: A week later I called Tünde
at home. This was our first living introduction which has been short, but
initiating the future meetings. Later on we wrote each other several letters
and once a week we could speak by phone. Every letter I received from Tünde
was an oasis in this psychically deserted world.
Tünde: I cannot describe what a letter from
Kornél meant to me. Simply all. Faith in God, faith in each other,
trust, hope and love. I had a new life when I heard his voice and when
I read his lines coming from his soul. He meant an indescribable happiness
to me by then already.
Kornél: After two and a half months we had
a nice possibility to meet personally. Tünde had her birthday. We
agreed on time and I went to her. There were strange feelings in me. I
know someone in such depths that in many cases people do not know each
other who live together for years and now I could even go past her in the
street because I have not seen her yet. Tünde's mother waited for
me when I arrived and told me Tünde was not at home, she was in hospital.
I got pale upon hearing these news. The kind reception and the possibility
to see her in the hospital in the afternoon made me calmer a little. I
could hardly wait to see that unknown someone who has been living inside
me for weeks already. This meeting came closer and closer. I saw her lying
in hospital bed for the first time waking up from sleep and this meeting
will be alive in me indelibly forever.
Tünde: Unfortunately I could not notify Kornél
about my operation even though I knew he would come. Surely this inconvenient
affair will result in a surprise for him and just on our first meeting.
I was excited a bit, but I knew he was not a stranger for me any more.
The very much expected time came and my mother, my brother entered the
room and He. Yes, it was him. He embraced me, held my hand and a there
was a thing which can happen between two people : " electric shock ". Neither
me nor - as I think - anybody in the hospital have seen a so happy patient
as I was. We were shining from happiness.
Tünde and Kornél: Friends have met
and we continued talking where we finished in our last letter. Something
was, however, different. Sitting on the bed or walking in the garden we
only held each other's hand taking no care of people turning around after
us. What we felt, that must have been seemed on us which filled us completely.
For a few hours the external world has ceased to exist. Hospital, illness,
sufferings, people's misery. It was only happiness and we felt so that
it radiates onto others as well. Other people in the room thought we were
a married couple. They were still thinking advance a little, but we were
glad that our environment had accepted us. When they learned that we met
for the first time, they could not really believe that.
Tünde: We really spent two marvelous days
together. These two days had a definitive meaning in our lives. We felt
we found each other, that being together means I am not alone any more
because with him I am much more and stronger. I wish everybody from the
bottom of my heart to experience this happy finding each other which we
could live through from mercy of God. One is sure, it is not easy to wait.
You can survive that difficult period of time with faith and clean intentions
and feelings. You should not give up hope.
Kornél: Difficult times came. Again, letters
and one phone call per week remained the way of keeping connection. Something
has definitely ended in my life and I entered a new period. It was clear
before me. I finished to exist alone. Three weeks later Tünde had
her second operation when I traveled to see her again. We met every day
at the hospital, we talked for hours and we could not understand, either,
what was happening to us. We agreed that after her hospital treatment she
would come to me and she would spend her illness holidays with me. This
step was our first decision indicating our serious intentions.
Tünde & Kornél: We still spent
one week together and we knew we did not want to live without each other
any more. We got engaged. We went back with engagement rings to Tünde's
home. Our environment could not really follow up. One week later we went
to the registrar and reported our marriage intentions and after one and
a half month we got married in the civil way. Further on we still had to
live far away from each other because our duties allowed no frequent meetings
and so we saw each other in every second or third week, for a weekend.
Two months later however, we got closer to creating our common life. We
determined the time of our real wedding day when at church we can take
an oath on our intention. Then, our plans and dreams almost diminished
within a moment.
Tünde: At the yearend, I passed my work over
to my successor and we planned to spend Christmas holidays together and
then we will prepare for our church wedding. Kornél will come to
fetch me and we will go home definitely together. Regretfully Kornél
did not arrive at the agreed time. Moreover, hours passed and he did not
come yet. My friend consoled me, but I knew something had happened because
he had always been punctual so far. I struggled my tears and I was worrying
very much.
Kornél: I left for Tünde early in the
morning and at a calm section of the road suddenly two unlighted bicyclists
turned before me. I jerked the steering wheel and because of this movement
the car suddenly slipped and I could not keep it on the road. The car tumbled
around and flew into a deep ditch. Fortunately I did not get hurt at all.
The biggest pain was that I knew Tünde was waiting for me and I was
not in the position to report what happened. Thanks to helpful people,
leaving all behind in the afternoon I luckily arrived at Tünde's house
after all.
Tünde: When Kornél arrived with an
unknown car and told me what happened, I could only be grateful to God
that he was alive and healthy. We will see all other things happen somehow.
And those certain other things happened as we planned and imagined to.
Tünde & Kornél: Everyone is looking
for happiness on this Earth. We know our desires after happiness will not
be fulfilled completely, but we know we can still be happy. This has its
price which is not little many times. If we cannot take sacrifices for
this purpose, we will be judged to be unhappy throughout a life. We have
to take great care of this happiness and guard it if we once got it, otherwise
it may end in one moment. If we love someone, even our steps cannot be
the same today as they were yesterday.
Tünde and Kornél met on sziv.net
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