Be safe...

So, I have this friend. His name is Garrett. He is one of my best friends in the entire world. He is the only one left that I'm actually friends with from my elementary school class. Sure, there's Patrick, but we don't really talk very often.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand. Garrett is going into the military and it hit me today that that means he won't be around much. Garrett is the only guy in this entire world that I feel I can trust with anything, I'd trust my life with him. I'm deathly afraid that once he's gone, we'll drift apart, he'll make new military buddies and i'll be stuck here. Sure I'll be making new friends too, but none of the guys will probably ever be as good a friend as Garrett was to me. He's probably my 3rd best friend in the entire world and losing him would destroy me. Some of you are probably thinking, "it's fine, you won't drift apart. He'll come visit and it'll be like he never left." but that's the thing, where he's going, it changes people, they don't come back who they were before, and scariest of all, sometimes they don't come back at all... I'm terrified for him. I know this all sounds utterly ridiculous to some people, but the thought of losing one of my best friends is one of the scariest and most painful thoughts I've had. No matter what, I will support him in every endeavor imaginable, even this one, but I do so very begrudgingly, because he will change, and he won't be the same care free, reckless person that I fall back on, even without him knowing.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that no matter what, he is my friend, and even tough I may not like it, he has to do what he wants and the most i can do is support him and hope it doesn't change him too much and that he does come back. I'm going to miss him more than most of you probably realize. with that, I'm going to stop writing this and move on to writing him a letter.