Change?

"Change is the only thing that's constant in life" - some pessimistic-but-frustratingly-right person.

It is the only thing that is constant. Other than Love, but that's just there. It's not something that moves or goes away completely. It's not something that can.

But isn't change just the crappiest thing sometimes?

We move to different houses, we change the way our rooms look, we get siblings, we change schools, we make new friends, we grow up. But none of these, as far as I'm concerned, are anywhere close to how hard it is to say goodbye.

Sometimes I think, why do we make friends, why do we get attached to one another if we know we're going to be separated one day? And I always have the answer to it : without people, we wouldn't really be able to survive.

Without people, there would be no-one to love. Without people, there would be no-one to tell us where we're going wrong. Without people.....we wouldn't be people.

And that's exactly why it's so hard to say goodbye. Because it is those people that go away that made us real, living human beings.

So I'm going to try every possible way to say goodbye - just in case I wanted to say it some way and I wasn't able to and I realise that years later and regret it forever.

So, for Rhea......Goodbye. I'm going to miss you. Lots.