Loss

There is a song that has the following line;  "Don't it always seem to go, that ya don't know what ya got till it's gone" and for where I am, at this time, it fits well.

I have a mate.........a good mate.........a best mate! For the past thirteen years we have spent much time together, getting to know each other, getting closer, understanding each other, being there for each other and........I suppose.......loving each other.

I don't think I have ever taken him for granted, but it has always been good to know he was there for me.........and I for him. We have prayed together, camped together, fished together, worked on cars & bikes together, rode together, shared our families, laughed together.............and cried together.

Well.........he's moving away!..........A long way away...........Far enough away to make it hard to go and visit him, and just as hard for him to visit me.

Later today, I go........with his family.......to say goodbye. To watch his plane take off and disappear into the vast expanse of sky, getting smaller and smaller until I can't see it anymore.

I will not cry (that is an out and out lie). I will miss my friend........my brother.........and a void will appear in my life. The period of time we spent together each week will be replaced with..........with what?............I don't really know.

Time for me to stop being a sook and share a photo of the two of us taken at his farewell.