to beijing

our dear friends are leaving for beijing in a week.

it should be great to relocate with the whole family with an expatriate's package. it should be pretty exciting to work and live and experience a different culture for at least a couple of years. it should be wonderful to be able to achieve this and still have a promise of even greater opportunities to come.

i am so happy for them.

but i am also feeling a bit sad.

i miss them already, thinking they will not be around for our regular friday mwg meetings or fellowships. i miss them already, thinking i cannot just text or call them for ideas to brainstorm with me for friends of jesus. i miss them already, thinking we will not be talking lengthily about serious problems or silly apprehensions. i miss them already, thinking there would be two less skeptic-and-sarcastic-in-a-funny-way people to kid and gripe around with. i miss them already, thinking of how we knowingly look at each other and guffaw secretly at our own private jokes. i miss them already, thinking they would be thousands of miles away.

i miss them already.