I am half sitting half lying on the window bed of a hotel facing the vast sea writing these words.

My cousin and I just finished a half breakfast after a cloudy morning walk across the little touristic town lying along the sea.

At first I found myself tying the headline “She is my daughter, how I couldn’t recognize her?” I had intended to write the third entry about a recent incident at the airport between me and my cousin.

She is lying on the bed next to mine, checking her phone notifications.

“No, I should write similarities between him and me. I always find it fun and emotional to write about my crush than my cousin.”

She and I bursted out laughing following my declaration of changing the writing topic.

“I will tell him that.”

I started noticing how similar we are since that noon when we had an unexpected chat after you finishing the examination for me.

That was one of the best chats I ever had with someone still a stranger in my life. Only in 30 minutes, I recognized we shared a few similarities in personalities.

More than a year passed since that day.

Let’s see how many similarities we share, which you may be unaware of. Perhaps, you don’t know how similar we are because I excel at hiding my feelings for you whenever I meet you.

1. We are single.
2. We love biking.
3. We love reading books.
4. We love vegetarian food.
5. We love taking photos.
6. We love visiting pagodas.
7. We love travel when we have time.
8. We put our families first.
9. We are the eldest child in our family.
10. We have only one sibling – a younger brother.
11. We love our younger brothers a lot.
12. We graduated from college the same year.
13. We are Master’s degree holders.
14. We studied overseas, almost the same year.
15. We came from the same city.
16. We can speak English.
17. We use English at work.
18. We have cars and our own homes.
19. We choose peace over dramas.
20. We prefer private life.
21. We have round faces.
22. We were born with single-lidded eyes.
23. Our teeth aren’t milky white and we let them be.
24. We tend to smile with closed lips.
25. We wear short-sighted glasses.
26. We don’t care about our white hairs.
27. We are said to have weird personality.
28. We were born into low-income families.
29. Our exes hailed from affluent families.
30. Our childhoods filled with struggles.
31. We are the breadwinner in our families.
32. We worked with big names in our industries.
33. Our jobs involve meeting people from all walks of life.
34. We don’t look at our phones on hanging out with friends.
35. We prefer to pay bills when we share meals with friends.
36. We don’t have a lot of friends.
37. We have close friends from high school.
38. We were divorced and haven’t been remarried.
39. We chose to end our unhappy marriages.
40. Our exes left us for another person.
41. It took us long to get over divorce.
42. We stay silent when fighting our own battles.
43. We are iPhone users.

These are just the similarities on the top of my mind. I will update this list when I recognize more similarities. I believe if we step closer, more similarities will be seen by me.

(*Note: This is the third posts of the 1,999 posts I targeted. There are 1,997 posts to be completed before the deadline of December 20, 2030).