She was nervous. It is her first time really being out on her own.
We'll be much closer now when I'm in school... but breaks are going to be weird without her. She's like a sister to me. (She calls us "soul-sisters.")
She told me that her dad wanted to have an official goodbye with her, and that it was weird for him that he wasn't helping her move because of work. She told her mom that she didn't want a "goodbye" she just wanted a "see ya later" and that this plan to move her was better for that purpose.
I understand what she was feeling. There's more finality in a "goodbye" then in a "see ya." I still think I would have wanted my family with me to move.
When I first started college I remember being homesick and crying myself to sleep a couple nights because I had become a "recurring character" in my parents' lives. That didn't mean that my character ceased to exist, it just started existing in a different bubble that sometime overlapped with theirs.
She has now become a recurring character in the lives of almost everyone she knows now. It's time for her to go off and make her own bubble.
Part of me hopes that she didn't cry herself to sleep last night. But, if that helped her release some nerves then I hope she did.
She told me that her dad wanted to have an official goodbye with her, and that it was weird for him that he wasn't helping her move because of work. She told her mom that she didn't want a "goodbye" she just wanted a "see ya later" and that this plan to move her was better for that purpose.
I understand what she was feeling. There's more finality in a "goodbye" then in a "see ya." I still think I would have wanted my family with me to move.
When I first started college I remember being homesick and crying myself to sleep a couple nights because I had become a "recurring character" in my parents' lives. That didn't mean that my character ceased to exist, it just started existing in a different bubble that sometime overlapped with theirs.
She has now become a recurring character in the lives of almost everyone she knows now. It's time for her to go off and make her own bubble.
Part of me hopes that she didn't cry herself to sleep last night. But, if that helped her release some nerves then I hope she did.
"I will not say, 'do not weep,' for not all tears are an evil." [Gandalf]
No comments:
Post a Comment