Exhausted, I crash on the couch and think I could just sleep until the morning. Except I don’t. I go out to dinner with the two friends and come back home to crash. I’m not being a good professional worker bee, but my brain is tired from all the thinking and the doing. It seeks social interaction with friends. We laugh. We eat. We drink. We laugh a lot. It’s always fun hanging out with these two. One is leaving for good in 3 weeks. Another one lives overseas.
I’m prioritizing precious time with people that I probably won’t see for a long time, if ever after they’re gone. People leaving used to bother me. So much it would bring tears to my eyes before I would sleep. Goodbyes are no different from Hellos. The goodbyes and hellos are opposite from each other. All goods things come to an end. So I spend time with friends I’ve fallen in love with. Work takes a back seat, and it’s a conscious choice I can live with.