The Day YOU Said Goodbye

“I’ll be leaving for Singapore soon!”

Who would’ve thought that my life would turn around 180 degrees by just hearing that one simple sentence.

I know Singapore is just hours away from home, but hey, it’s my SIS that’s leaving and not just some random stranger that I came across with. And add it to the fact that she told me the news just days before her scheduled flight!

Although I’ve been anticipating for that moment but still, it did came as a surprise, a very big one as a matter of fact. Probably because I wasn’t expecting for her dreams to catch up with her reality that soon.

I know subconsciously she was entertaining the idea of going overseas, it’s just that she was putting it off her mind for quite some time and didn’t figure it out until this year.

Don’t get me wrong, I am happy for my super-friend! Someone once said, “A real friend rejoices at her friends’ success/accomplishments”. That’s why when I realized that finally in some bizarre circumstance my dearest friend’s prayers was finally answered I went all “Oh my! Sis will have one exciting head start this year!”.

With the kind of friendship we have, I believe it’s reasonable for me to get all down in the dumps for a while. What I have with my sis is one extraordinary kind of friendship. Yes, we may do things like what any other girl friends do and we argue about stuff that any other friends argue about. But more than that we just don’t treat each other as close friends, we treat each other like real sisters.

She’s one of the few that I would talk to over the phone for hours, the one that I instantly think of when I want to share some news (may it be good, bad, or just nonsense), the one I can right away call when I want to go somewhere, the one I know who would fairly judge me when I know I did something stupid.

This temporary geographical distance might inconvenience our friendship in some ways, but I will never allow this to sever the bond we have! Besides, what we’ve got isn’t measured by the distance between us nor the frequency of time spent together.

I know that the day she said goodbye, she’ll be coming back home someday…

 …and with me holding on to that truth, makes everything less heartbreaking. 

xoxo, mae =)