Rotem’s eulogy
A testament of love and the future that wasn’t to be as dreamt

Lulu my love,

In about six months we were supposed to stand together under the canopy and celebrate our great love. Almost everything is ready.

How we waited to get to this day, how much we talked about it, how excited and happy we were.

The thing I was most proud of and wanting to share with you, are the vows that were already prepared since our second month together. I was so reluctant not to read them to you before. Every time I wanted to read to you, you told me no, to wait, so you would be surprised. Then you added "But you should know that I don't write vows. I have the ability to stand in front of a huge number of soldiers and spur them on to battle, but reading at a wedding is out of the question”.

So now I want to read you a small part of what I wrote to you as I was supposed to read excitedly,  focusing on your blue eyes under the canopy:

After the first meeting it was already clear to me. You told me about yourself and I just thought how pleasant it is for me to be in your company and how fun it is to have a conversation with you. And in general, when you spoke, I had a lot of things running through my mind, feeling we are similar, not only on the outside but also on the inside? And the realization fell that actually all these years I was looking for you. I was looking for someone who would, like me, love life as well as the sofa, who would love to dance and have fun and make people happy at weddings, who would be a good friend, someone who would love to love, who would be sensitive but militant, who would be mischevious and a second later serious, in short, be like me.

Sometimes it feels like a movie or some kind of dream to me to think that in the beginning we said no and look how much in love we are today. And here today I get to wake up every morning by your side (metaphorically not really) and feel safe and the most loved because you give me a sense of security every day. You keep me from stumbling and the truth is that the most beautiful thing in our relationship is that there is a lot of aloneness. And it makes you appreciate every moment and every minute because nothing is taken for granted. So that you know that every day that I get up I say thank you for you. Just thank you that in this life I found my soul mate.

Lulu, you are my best friend, you are my favorite person.

Everyday with you and the little things that are only ours , they are my biggest dreams. You are my balance at any given moment.

Until the end of life and beyond as this is the only thing that matters, even in the next incarnation I will come back to look for you again.

I know you will always be there for me, to hug, kiss and love and this is the home I have been looking for for so many years, you are the home of my heart.

Watch over me and your whole family from above. Be sure I'm as strong a Viking as you like, just like the day you fell in love with me.

I love you so much💔