On Friday my good friend Allison leaves to head back to the states to their next duty station, Scott will follow in a week or so and Mark leaves soon too. In military communities we get "use to" good friends leaving, and we think over time it will get easier to see them go.
I am not sure that it ever gets easy to see good friends leave, but what I do know is it makes you thankful and stronger. You are faced with mixed feelings of sadness, and of happiness with each farewell.
I have come to realize, for me it helps to say see you later, not goodbye. Through this outlook, I am very lucky that I have friends who live throughout the world. With the internet it is amazing how easy it is to keep in touch and how easy it is to pick up where you left off when you meet again.
I am so thankful and blessed that for the past year and three months (but who's counting. ha) Allison, Scott, and Connor (their dog) and Mark (the other member of our "family") have excepted me as part of their family.
Many thanks to Allison for all the wonderful dinners. Thanks you all for the great memories, for the laughs, the inside jokes, the sarcasm, the movie quotes, and the great conversations and the other less than PC conversations... what a crew... I am not going to lie, venting about life just won't be as fulfilling without all of you.
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Scott, Allison, and Connor have fun in AMERICA!!! When we meet again you will have baby CJ!! Hooray! Mark, great adventures to you too.
To all my great friends everywhere thanks for EVERYTHING!! I am one lucky girl!
~J
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
-- Richard Bach
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