Places I No Longer Walk You To.
Today I’m learning that sending people off is a privilege. Growth is great, and a constant’s are as fulfilling.
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Perhaps watching them move toward places you no longer walk aside to feels strange. I’ve always failed at sending people off. Never knew how to put the weight of a feeling into words somehow. So when the time comes to say, I often leave too much unsaid.
Know that my silence has never meant the fond was little.
If anything, there is too much of it. I feel in every function that suddenly becomes precious, in every chuckle I’ll reckon differently once the distance grows, in every fleeting part of the days that I knew I’ll later look back.
Still, how do I tell someone to go chase life I wholeheartedly wish for them? But just today I am learning that constant could be afar. Grow. Become. Find places waiting for you. You’ve spared me gratitude more than I know how to articulate and more to dote on than my goodbye could ever hold.
