Parting ways with beloved friends
This year has been one of the best in recent memory, and perhaps the best of my life. This may lead you to question the quality of my life prior to this, but I would argue though I had a good life, certain things fell into place this year that made my life infinitely better. For the first time in my life I found a place where I belong and people who care about me and make me feel secure enough to be completely myself around them. These amazing friends are probably the best gift the gods have ever bestowed upon me. This is not to diminish the wonders of the friendships that have been created prior to this, they are each special in their own way, but these friendships I have made here are exactly what I needed when I needed it.
Many of these friends are leaving me shortly. Scattering across the Earth on new and wondrous adventures, but like my friend Stephanie said after she left, it is as though everyone is still with me even when we are thousands of miles apart, and Steph and I are thousands of miles apart right now, but unlike Steph, I am much more emotional about the parting, mostly because I do not know when we might all be together once more. There is very little certainty in life, and I find that hard to deal with. I am a bit of a control freak.
I sometimes regret not coming here sooner. One year with these amazing women simply does not feel like enough. I wish I had more time with them to get to know them better and solidify some of the most important friendships of my lifetime, but I cannot help but feel lucky for what time we had together, and hopefully one day we will all meet up again and create more breathtaking memories for me to savor. Until then, I have to learn how to bid my much-loved friends farewell. Part of me wants to be upset with the gods that the time has flown by so swiftly and that I spent so much of our time together with mono, unfortunately, I realize that the time we had was a girt. I only hope I learned all there was to learn, and gained from this experience all that I was meant to gain. I hop I touched their lives as well. So here’s to you my friends, may the journeys you now embark upon allow you to grow and experience the world in wonderful ways you never even dared dream were possible, and may we one day meet again and embrace our friendship as if it were today.
Many of these friends are leaving me shortly. Scattering across the Earth on new and wondrous adventures, but like my friend Stephanie said after she left, it is as though everyone is still with me even when we are thousands of miles apart, and Steph and I are thousands of miles apart right now, but unlike Steph, I am much more emotional about the parting, mostly because I do not know when we might all be together once more. There is very little certainty in life, and I find that hard to deal with. I am a bit of a control freak.
I sometimes regret not coming here sooner. One year with these amazing women simply does not feel like enough. I wish I had more time with them to get to know them better and solidify some of the most important friendships of my lifetime, but I cannot help but feel lucky for what time we had together, and hopefully one day we will all meet up again and create more breathtaking memories for me to savor. Until then, I have to learn how to bid my much-loved friends farewell. Part of me wants to be upset with the gods that the time has flown by so swiftly and that I spent so much of our time together with mono, unfortunately, I realize that the time we had was a girt. I only hope I learned all there was to learn, and gained from this experience all that I was meant to gain. I hop I touched their lives as well. So here’s to you my friends, may the journeys you now embark upon allow you to grow and experience the world in wonderful ways you never even dared dream were possible, and may we one day meet again and embrace our friendship as if it were today.