Prisha Khimavat

Hello’s and Goodbye’s are both difficult in their own right.

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Goodbye.

The End.

Is this it forever?

Or am I going to see you again?

Pressure.

Will we stay in touch?

Or will you eventually forget me?

Will you remember the memories we made together?

Or will they slowly fade away with the weather?

Doubt.

Will you find a friend way better than me?

Will you love them way more than me?

Who will I share our inside jokes with?

Will you remember them when we meet again?

When will we meet again?

I can’t wait to see you again.

Hope.

Goodbyes are strange things, bittersweet, if you will. They’re filled with the remnants of laughter and sweet memories made, but also the heartache of the distance to come. Sometimes when you say goodbye, you simply don’t know when you’re going to say hello again. Over these past few months, I’ve missed my wonderful Jelly Fam a lot, and that goodbye has been very hard on me!

Jelly Fam.

These girls have been my rock, my best friends, my sisters. We have laughed till our sides hurt, and we have cried till our noses resembled Rudolph’s. There are so many memories I share with every single one of them, that looking back reminds me of so many stories that are worth telling, and so many experiences that I loved sharing. They were all a little dramatic, sometimes a bit sassy, but always extremely funny, welcoming and most importantly so loving! The thing that I loved most about them was their ability to find humor and beauty in the most random and littlest of things. There’d be days when one of them would would find a leaf that they found so beautiful, they’d decide to keep. They’d take one photo every single day and make videos to sum up their entire year. They’d make videos about every trip we went on, so that we’d have memories to look back on.

As far as the humor goes, we created an entire murder mystery around paper cranes at one point and time (basically, some body at our school was ripping the heads off of the paper cranes we had made, and it got to the point where someone built an actual paper guillotine, but that’s a story for another day!) We’d talk about and laugh about the upkeep of beards and whether or not our bearded teachers shampooed and conditioned theirs. We found amusement in random silly things, and I’m going to miss that. I’m going to miss the hours spent eating, singing, dancing and laughing together!

I know that at this point in our lives, we won’t all meet again for a long time, but even so, I can’t wait to see where life takes each one of you. Being entirely honest, every time I see you with other friends, my heart breaks a little, and I feel so possessive, because you’re my friends! But, I’ve been learning and realizing that you girls are amazing, and you’ve got so much love to give that there is enough to go around. Having said that, I miss you so so much!

Saying goodbye to you has been extremely difficult and even though it has been a few months since we have all been together, I feel so blessed and thankful for the age of technology that I can still see your beautiful faces! This transition period is difficult, but you all are going to do amazing, you already are!

So, until we meet again, here’s goodbye.

~ Prisha Khimavat  ~