‘When you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him will be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.’
Ah, good old Kahlil Gibran, always trying to find the positive, the lesson, in the sometimes-tangled mess of life. I suppose this was his way of saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but sometimes absence is just that, a hole in your life, where something or someone once was and they cannot be replaced.
I’ve parted from several friends in my life, simply due to having moved so often and so far, but most of us are still in touch. Each on our own journey, but our paths still intersect from time to time.
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Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Thank you for sharing this, Sue xx
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Thank you for writing it, Helen. My younger son read this… and it makes a difference to him that I have perhaps done so too. ❤
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Thank you, Sue, that’s really lovely to know. I’ve been thinking about you so much, and the words just came tumbling out. I just wanted to convey a little of what our friendship, and the things we’ve experience together, mean to me 🙂 x
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It means agood deal, Helen, and one of the real gifts to come out of this awful situation… and there are still gifts… is to be here for the hugs, verbal, virtual and real, of those I love.
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Well I am sending a virtual hug now – and hoping we get to have a real one at some point xx
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Thanks, Helen… so am I 🙂 xx
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