Saturday, June 28, 2008

For A Season and Reason.

They say it is inevitable that friends must part some day. Parting always takes something from you even if it's going to be just for a short while. You could live with that. Until some time passes by and you almost forget the last time you saw your friend, and you realize it was the 'last' time. Remember all the 'last times' you have taken for granted in the past and said a timid 'goodbye' to a friend. You take her for granted because you can't already feel her absence and you guess you'll see her again. Yes friends part ways. People do part ways and each one goes his own hoping to meet you again. Nobody ever sees it that you might never ever meet again. So everybody tend to say 'goodbye' and 'go well'.

It is the reason I have realized it is good to feel the people around you and live around them as if you knew it was the last time. I know I may sometimes not care about other people around me but that is just because they were not so dear or friendly enough to consider as a loss out of sight. That last moment when your friend goes and then it will take a while before you get together again.

Sebah would tell you not to worry; that someone has left your life. He was in it for a reason and now that the reason is no more he has left. Yes. They come in your life for a reason. Friends are angels God send your way to support you with something through the journey. Their role is specific and timed and once that time is up they go away. They can go for a short time or for a long long while. In the meantime God has given you another for yet another reason and season, and he too, like the ones before him will go away.

Something else. God bring you closer to people whom He thinks can be interesting in your life and whom you need. Do not keep them away from you. They are only there for a little while for you to make good use of their presence in your life. They will go. They will go some day. Sometimes never to come back.

Friends part when their time is up. Some go far away to far far lands, some won't just need you for a friend anymore while some simply decide to die. Whichever way they go, they are friends we would like to keep forever. Sadly that we wait till when they are gone to miss and appreciate them.

Luckson, Hassan and Jose are leaving the Big Brother House tomorrow. Syl, Hub, CJ the sadist and the Indians had left earlier. May they go well. Till we see each other again. You have all been great friends to me. The moments we have shared. The laughter. The jokes. The puzzles. The catch-ups. Our passions, love and fun. The great discussions and especially the Naija experience. I know we had time to know each other better. Let's keep all the good things we have learnt from one another and forgive the misgivings coz we are only human.

My farewell, kind regards and greetings to your dear ones. Let's put time to the test and see how long it will tick before we meet for yet another season and reason. Bon voyage.