I'm Sam. I just watched Frodo sail away on a ship, never to see him again, leaving me standing on the shore.
An analogy aided by the fact that my name really is Sam, but for those who don't speek Geek, my very best friend, the best I've had in my life, who I've known since I was ten (that's nine years) is moving to New Zealand tomorrow, the opposite side of the Earth, and I've just said goodbye to him for the final time. I might not ever see him in the flesh again.
The last nine years he's been my best friend, at times my only really good friend, for much of that time my only friend at school. We've grown from kids, through the horror of puberty into young adulthood. We've done loads together, had great times, and he has been one of the best inspirations and readers for my writing. Despite two seperate attempts to join OWF he's never really got involved.
We went to France and then to Japan, on school trips. We've given perhaps hundreds of pounds to Pizza Hut when together, since it's pretty much the only place to eat in this town. The last year at university, my first thought upon coming home has always been to meet up with him.
He was my friend longer than I've been on OWF, he was my friend when my Dad died; we were in school together straight from the year we met until the year we both left. He's been the most incredile friend, and I owe much of who I am now to him.
And now he's just gone. I guess I could say loads about it. We didn't have any time to plan a final meeting because I was away from home this week, and I didn't find out that I would be away until a day or two before I left. So he and another friend came to my house earlier today (which is unusual since we usually meet at his house, but as most of its contents are in boxes it seemed impractical) and played some retro games and watched the first few episodes of 'Firefly'; an incredible TV series which he introduced me to. Then we went for a walk in a nature reserve near my house, similar to something we did last year at a nature reserve near his house, but rather tamer since we lacked his sister and her friends (which was a shame 'cus it would have been fun to have all of us together once more) and then went into town and ate dinner at Pizza Hut, which is a lot closer to tradition.
Then we had to go our seperate ways.
So yeah, might post some pictures from today at some point. Izuki, I shall miss you dearly.
Splat.
