1 Finally, Chinese
New Year family reunions are no longer grouped together in terms of
pain levels -- with visits to the dentist, filling your tax returns
or hacking off your arm without any anesthesia.
2 Because you're
always smiling for no obvious reasons, you are a much nicer person
to be around.
3 Now, you understand
what it means to get that funny knot in the stomach and dizziness
that you're always read about in Barbara Cartland novels (for her)
or watched in stalker movies (for him).
4 You always have
someone to share that holiday experience.
5 Why people would
even think about having children, adult responsibilities, a house,
mortgage and station-wagon finally make sense.
6 A bad day at the
office will always end in the evening with a comforting word
and a hug.
7 Love songs and Meg
Ryan movies no longer make you violently ill.
8 It's nice to think
about someone -- in a good way -- the first thing in the morning,
and again the last thing in the evening.
9 It's no longer
embarrassing to cry during a late return of "It's a Wonderful
Life".
10 Office meetings
are much more bearable because while you appear to be busy taking
notes, you are, in fact, just scribbling the name of your beloved
all over the page.
11 You realise that
there is more to life than just work.
12 You stop taking
things and people, such as your parents, for granted.
13 The days (even the
dreary, wet ones) just seem that little much brighter and
happier.
14 For some reason,
you become braver, and tend to dream bigger dreams.
15 You no longer
object to public displays of affection.
16 You wonder if this
was how your parents felt when they first met, and you began to
understand them a little bit more.
17 You suddenly feel
this urge to learn how to cook.
18 Poetry, why people
write poems in the first place and why your horrid English
Literature professor forced you to read rhyming couplets, begin to
make a little more sense.
19 Your desk feels less
bare and impersonal with framed pictures of the one you love.
20 You finally feel
grown up.