Visit

I've been gone, I know its been too long. I have just been lazy, no other excuse at all! Christmas and New Years was spent with family and a long awaited visit from the truest of friends. When she left on the 3rd of January I instantly missed her. Usually I am ok with these things, but this time it felt different, as if someone had left me forever. While she was here we talked and talked and talked, whilst drinking A LOT. And it felt almost as if it had not been a whole year since we last saw each other. It definitely cannot be a year until next time. I used to think that this particular girl was not particularly bright, I admit it gladly, but she has turned into one of the wisest women I know and over all extremely balanced. It is not strange to see someone change so much when you've known them your whole life, but it is a surprise how ignorant I can be sometimes, at least when Academia is about to call me an intellectual. The company of someone that knows you so well is comforting and scary at the same time. When someone can be so straightforward and tell you that you should do something, and ask you why you haven't a long time ago, is refreshing. Being with her made me realise how much I change around people. Around her I could always be myself and I always had someone to talk to that would always tell me as it was, yet constantly have my back. I miss someone like that here, I know I have the husband, but its different to have someone that you cannot see for a whole year and suddenly everything is as it was those 12 months back. I miss that. I miss her, my beloved best friend.