Goodbyes are hard.

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?