In less than 12 hours I will be driving my sister to the airport where she will be leaving for New York.
She has been packing all day and watching her is starting to get to me.
Now it's really happening. She's really leaving.
It's not like she's hasn't been away from home. When she went to college, she lived on campus for the first two years before moving back home. But she was only an hour away. Now she's going to be 2,000+ miles and 3 hr. time difference away. I know that this would happen eventually and I'm really happy for her.
But as any one with siblings can attest, when one of them leaves especially one that you are close to, you have that period of feeling left behind. Of course you still have your parents, other siblings, and even friends, but this is the person that knows you the most. The one you tell secrets to that no one else will ever know. The one where you two can have the biggest fight, but know that you will eventually make up.
The one who will always be there for you.
The relationship can still be the same, but now it's in a different place. Where we can compare new life experiences beyond the ones from the four walls of our childhood home. The experiences that make us wiser.
I better stop now before I start rambling like a cheesy Hallmark card. Or better yet, put my feelings from pen to paper and let her know how much I love her and that I'm going to miss her.
She has been packing all day and watching her is starting to get to me.
Now it's really happening. She's really leaving.
It's not like she's hasn't been away from home. When she went to college, she lived on campus for the first two years before moving back home. But she was only an hour away. Now she's going to be 2,000+ miles and 3 hr. time difference away. I know that this would happen eventually and I'm really happy for her.
But as any one with siblings can attest, when one of them leaves especially one that you are close to, you have that period of feeling left behind. Of course you still have your parents, other siblings, and even friends, but this is the person that knows you the most. The one you tell secrets to that no one else will ever know. The one where you two can have the biggest fight, but know that you will eventually make up.
The one who will always be there for you.
The relationship can still be the same, but now it's in a different place. Where we can compare new life experiences beyond the ones from the four walls of our childhood home. The experiences that make us wiser.
I better stop now before I start rambling like a cheesy Hallmark card. Or better yet, put my feelings from pen to paper and let her know how much I love her and that I'm going to miss her.
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