Thursday, May 21, 2009.

and yes they're officially gone. in t3w2 when we step back into that same old room, that room that people like me have called home 5 years back, we will be alone.

no one will be up there, older than us, and we will be THE batch.

it's hard to part sometimes; i miss the v1s already. but it's natural; parting is very much just the opposite of getting together - it's an action - reaction pair.

i still remember what our RIEL instructor said to us about them and the students; something about attempting to not be so close to them because it's painful for them and the students to part after just 2 days.

maybe this whole process of detachment - leaving oneself out so that when it's time to part it hurts less - may make sense at times. it's something i've been experimenting with to a certain degree, that of not being too close to certain groups so that when it's time to part it doesn't hurt as much.

although some groups of people are too valuable, too precious to merely be acquaintances. those people are the ones i regularly talk to, the people i can confide in and the people i lend my ear to. basically, not the people whom you detach yourself from.

there's a special name for them - friends.

"A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and comfortable in the silence." Sheryl Condie

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