to Cheryl with love. . .
Summer flew by too soon and next week it'll be June. I remember when everything was simple and didn't always need to make sense. We saw colour in life, appreciated beauty in the unseen and found simple pleasures in the unknown. We were random and wild and spontaneous and didn't live by rules. I remember our amazing themed dinner parties, and our early morning shopping trips in winter that would inevitably turn into a night out. I remember camping out in the living room for our horror movie marathon accompanied by nachos, salsa and tim tams and our crazy antiquing spree and wild road trip to the ingelwood markets and mundaring.
And then there was last christmas. The icing on summer's cake. The cocktails, turkey sandwiches, peri peri's, the cheap yet pretty christmas decor, the cheesy masks and reindeer antlers, cameras flashing every 5 minutes and the laughter that surrounded it all. We were together, just like we had been for the past 4 years and yet i remember last christmas the most as if it were just yesterday. Perhaps it was the fact that i was running out of time and i wanted to capture every memory, savour it as if it were my last meal, and treasure it knowing i'd never get it back. Perhaps for the first time i could actually appreciate the things that we did together and not take it for granted like i probably always did. Perhaps it was the fact that we had grown up and time meant more now than it ever did.
I miss the days when you were merely a walk away, then a 15 minute bus ride away, and then a phone call away. Now we are oceans apart and living each day knowing that this is how its going to be for a long while, knowing that i can't see you when i want or cry on your shoulder when i'm heartbroken or have a bad day at work just tears me up inside. But then i pick up the phone and dial your number and suddenly everything's peachy again because no matter how far apart we are we've always had each other... and we always will.
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