It's weird when people drift apart, isn't it?
Like when you are really close to someone then all of a sudden you're both off doing your own stuff, meeting new people, and then you don't get the chance to talk to one another anymore. They change, you change, and you don't end up seeing them for another few years or so.
Quite a while back I was really close to a guy named Omi, but now I haven't spoken to him properly for about four years. We went to the same elementary school, always hung out at breaktimes and lunchtimes, and almost every day he came back to my house after school. We were like best buddies – and really he was the only true friend I had.
But something changed when we were in Grade 4 – one day he confessed to me that he was leaving my town and going to live somewhere else, much further away. I wasn't able to speak to him for a while – I didn't want to. He told me he was going to become a Xiaolin monk, and he had to, it was his destiny and his main mission in life. But why couldn't I become a Xiaolin monk? Why couldn't I go with him?
My silent treatment towards him just made things worse. I ignored him for a whole week after his announcement, even though he tried to talk to me and say he was sorry, I didn't answer back and kept my head down. When he eventually gave up speaking to me at all, that's when we began to drift apart.
And not long after that, that's when he moved. And I didn't get to say goodbye.