Mike
It all started about 15 years ago. I
had been kicked out of another school and moved to yours and into
your class. Boys and girls at that age are never really great friends
because, well, it's just not cool. But I would always say we were
friends. There was a short gap when we didn't see much of each other
but then I came back and then I just happened to marry your best
friend securing my place in your life forever and vise versa.
You left for London today and the truth
is I'm just sad about it and happy. Excited, but sad all the same.
Time just keeps moving on. The days
pass by like a blurr and suddenly it's Monday again and it's almost
September which means almost my birthday, which means (sit down for
this one as it's not for the faint hearted) it's almost Christmas and
the start of another year. Your leaving has been a long time coming.
We have know for months that you would be going but it was always a
long way off, but you left today anyway.
Time just keeps going.
The thing about it is that we will miss
having you around. We are blessed to have so many friends that
sometimes we forget to remind you that we love you. Now you have gone
things just wont be the same. The conversations will be different,
the feelings, truths will be different. We will never be what we were
to each other. Eveything but nothing will be changed. You have left a
hole that we will fill with other things, and everything will go on
the way it always has done. Like it did when Bobbie left and when Amy
left.
I'm not worried we have made it through
15 years of comings and goings, joys and sadness. You will fly
through your late 20's and make new friends who will make you laugh
and change you. We will watch as you develop new skills in a new town
and have new experiences away from us. And we will do the same.
Everything changes eventually.
I'm not worried.
So my plan is to miss you, encourage
you, pray for you often, wait patiently for my new house and love you
always, because what else are friends for?
