A Singaporean guy recently wrote on Facebook after he fell in love with a girl who offered him a facemask on the streets when he forgot to bring one out. They managed to get together into a relationship but his parents and friends said she was ugly and fat.
Here is the full story.
5 months ago, as I was leaving my house for work and walking to the bus stop, I noticed a few strangers staring at me and avoiding me. As I was waiting for my bus, a woman who’s wearing a beige cardigan suddenly approached me and told me, “You forgot to wear mask.” I instinctively checked my pockets and backpack to see if I have a mask but realised I don’t have any. Seeing how anxious I was, she then asked me if I need a mask and proceeded to pass me an extra mask from her bag. As soon as she passed me the mask, her bus came and she quickly left. Since then, I started carrying extra masks in my bag.
A few weeks later, I saw a woman wearing a beige cardigan and I thought to myself that it could be the one who gave me a mask. Indeed it was her and so I decided to give her a new mask placed in a ziplock. I quickly wrote a Thank You note and put it inside the ziplock before giving her the ziplock. On the Thank You note, I wrote “You gave me your mask a few weeks ago. Thank you so much. By the way, you’re really cute! (:” and sneakily wrote down my number on the back of the note.
A few days later, I received a text saying, “Thank you for the mask! :)” To my surprise, it was her. I honestly did not expect that she would text me and I was so happy that she did. We then started texting and I realised she’s not just a pretty girl but also a very kind person. She’s also a preschool teacher and an active volunteer at animal shelters.
Eventually we started going out and I asked her to be my gf. But my mom doesn’t really like my gf as she thinks my gf is not pretty and quite fat and also 5 years older than me. It really saddens me that some of my friends and relatives have also commented the same thing. My sister even jokingly said that I have been blinded by love.
To me, kindness is the most important quality in a person and it is what makes you beautiful. Every act of kindness counts, no matter how small. On the day I first met my gf, everyone avoided me like the plague because I wasn’t wearing a mask, everyone except my girlfriend. Not only did she not avoid me, she even gave me her mask.
To everyone else, my gf may be just an average-looking chubby girl but in my eyes, she’s the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. If being blinded by love feels like happiness then I would gladly choose to be blind.