It has finally hit me that I may never see the wonderful people I have met in my year long stay in Korea. The people I have seen on a regular basis, day after day, will no longer be a part of my life in the same way. Of course there has been discussion of "Korea Reunions" and there's always email and the good ol' telephone. But if there's anything I've learned about moving, it's that people change and people drift apart. The friendships I have tried to maintain since high school have mostly turned dull for the mere fact we all live our own separate lives now and don't really have all that much in common anymore.
Now I'd like to be the optimist and hope for the best, but deep down in the pit of my stomach, I know that is not realistic. I guess all I can do is hope for the best and hang on to the memories. Eventually you'll have people in your life where you can just pick up like no time was ever lost.
Someone once told me that in your lifetime, if you can count the number of true friends on your hand, you are a lucky person. I like to think that someday I'll be able to use my toes too. There's too many people I love out there and those I have yet to meet.
I just consider myself the lucky one to have them in my life.
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