After that summer, nothing felt the same. We always wondered what had happened, what had occurred that caused our great shift. Maybe it was that heavy rain that drowned out our voices with its roaring splats on the pavement; that made us feel as if our secrets were washed away along with the dirt on the concrete… I’ll never know for sure, and I’ll always wonder. But I will never forget that next day, when I had expected the change to come from our everyday lives, moving on to a new place, a new start… But it wasn’t from that. I felt the change within me, and in her. We were no longer the same, there was no turning back. Our meaning faded completely in that one night, the night before our worlds as we know them now would end. And with a last look that next morning as we found ourselves waking up together, I began to feel my heartache.
Goodbyes can be sudden and rushed, but they are always needed. People walk into our lives from all different ends of the world, changing us and shaping us until we find a permanent self. Typically we forget all the casual run-ins of friends and acquaintances throughout our lives as we grow older, but sometimes a single moment can stay imprinted in your memory forever. It is in these moments, you see yourself being defined. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, that same person who experienced these moments with you is sitting quietly to themselves with a slight smile on their face, recalling the memories they have of you instilled in their heart.
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