You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

I cannot wait till the place of no goodbyes. The place where tears are no more and friendships are everlasting...

Today I sadly stood and waved goodbye to my best friend as she drove down our driveway and onto the road of independence. My sister Elise was off to Kansas City. With all the tears that followed an onlooker might have guessed that she was leaving forever. In reality they were only evidence of the fact that she left us with more than an empty bedroom. She has never been gone for more than two weeks, and the realization that I will no longer be able to sit on her bed and talk any time I wish is beginning to hit me like a blow to the face.

There is a familiar saying, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone." I fear that I took her for granted at times. Everything she did. Always serving. Always loving. Just being her beautiful self. I love an miss her, and I know that my future times with her will be rich and all the more treasured.