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| quote: | Originally posted by Seventil
The worst thing about being in the military is that the friends you meet eventually move on to another place, or you do. It's easily the worse thing about it.
I've made some really great friends over the years - most recently, my friend who I went to about 22 different countries with (Thailand, Egypt, France, Poland, etc...) - we were best friends for 3 years - hell, I'd take a bullet for him and he'd do the same for me. Now, though - he's out and living back in the states. I'm in the middle of a war. A year from now I'm a free man, and I may live near him, who knows - but it just sucks making great friends like that and having to give it up because you're working for the man.
Whenever I think of friendship, I remember something from one of the Lord of the Rings books. It puts perspective on life, I think:
I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;
Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.
I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.
I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.
But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door |
yeah, i know exactly what you mean, awesome post. It really bothered me meeting awesome people and then them leaving so soon...but I also realized that maybe they wouldnt have been so awesome if I had known them longer. And you have to cherish those perfect relationships for being just the way they were.
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.I guess you can say my gf friend is one of my best friends.
