Farewells, more2go

Going to a friend's farewell party led to an acknowledgement of another departure in a month.

The former friend is taking off to Lakehead University for 2 years. The farewell party was great. He enjoyed it and I am glad that he had a good time. He has always been a nice person. Chatty yet innocent. But he will get serious if he needs to. It was a pleasure to get to know him for the last two weeks since he has been giving me rides from the station to church whenever I needed. I wish him the best of luck in school.

The latter friend is departing at the end of June. The idea of moving back to Vancouver was not out of the blue. However, the desire of this change was marginally increased after his sister's wedding. Apparently, at least in my personal opinion, he has reached the stage of realizing the importance of families. He starts to enjoy being around with his family. His maturity has come to a phase that he will put family as one of his priorities. This can happen to people who has earned enough life experience. Because only after you have been through that much, you realize the importance of family. Only after you have been by yourself for so long, you are able to feel the kind of joy that could come from a family. Only after you have been through tough times, you know for sure that no matter what happen you will get the support from your family.

That's why I feel for him. And that's probably why I am one of the small group of people who do not tell him to stay.