It’s been a long, sad week of writing heartfelt messages in farewell cards, reminiscing funny stories and memories over drinks and countless hugs and re-hugs. This week I said “Goodbye” to two amazing friends as they leave Adelaide (and me) forever. Or at least for the foreseeable future.
One friend is moving to San Sebastián in Spain, where he’ll be learning to speak Spanish while relaxing by the pristine blue ocean and eating tapas. I’m not jealous at all.
I will miss the laughs at work – especially the tram antics that have kept me wary of catching them for the last year now, the random facial hair and the drink bottle that made Thursdays of 2013 go by quicker. Thanks for teaching me that it’s safe to eat watermelon skin!
My other friend is moving to Melbourne to do an MBA before moving back to Phuket. I’ve known Sushi for about 10 years now and we’ve come from wearing goofy looking safety glasses in Chemistry classes to …something more classy.
I feel like I’ve lost a little bit of my heart now that the four of us will never catch up for birthday dinners (which we’ve done since we were 15). There are so many memories, so much laughter and a terabyte hard drive worth of photos to cry over when you’re gone.
I’m so melodramatic. I don’t take goodbyes well, so I’ve been sulking in bed licking my wounds for the past week. It doesn’t help that one of my best friends at work has temporarily flown the coup and my pod mates have been forced to move desks to another floor. Why is everyone abandoning me?
I have “Free Beer”* tonight to drown my sorrows.
*the Fringe show
An 'Amy'-zing Adventure 