My 9th symphony

I leave DC whole heartedly excited for the future, yet saddened by the fact that nothing will ever be the same from this point on. Everything that has occurred will and forever be in the past, and from this point on it’ll be different.. I feel saddened for my sister as I see her leave behind family and friends she has made in DC. I realized nothing will ever be the same. Sitting in the living room with my siblings talking, joking becomes less frequent as we start to form our own lives. 

Friends come and go and you lose touch with many, and while distance may grown between siblings much like it will inevitably happen with friends, siblings will forever be the most constant companionship you have because you are bounded by one consistent and perennial thing: your shared blood. 

While my sister was packing last night she said to my brother, “I guess this is the last time we’ll be living together.” My brother replied, “I hope so! If we have to move in together again we must have been doing something wrong.” We all laughed, and yeah it was true, yet sad at its core. Truth was, we were all moving forward, with our jobs and relationships. We were living our lives now, creating our own homes now and moving forward means creating your own world separately away sometimes. 

I leave DC with a few tears under lock, but not because I feel lonely or that something tragic occurred here. If anything I leave knowing that things will be different, but in that same regard we’re all afforded the chance to build our own lasting happiness. I guess there will be a few casualties behind, but every triumphant story has story of great loss and gain. Glad to say that within those line of people that will come in and out of my life, my siblings will forever be bonded through me from our shared love and respect for each other. 

“Blood is thicker than water.”