Well, I'm sitting here in my Mom's appartment with my bags all packed. I have been sending out emails and phoning my closest friends to say good bye and making sure they have all my contact info. Tonight is my last night in Canada for quite some time to come.
Thinking about the adventure I am about to embark on, I am reminded of a day about 6 years ago. I was living with my roommate and good friend, Sean. A few months earlier he had decided that his life was going no where, so he signed up with the Canadian Armed Forces. Imagine leaving for basic training in August of 2001.
One day that month he came up to me to inform me that all the arrangements had been made and he would be off to Quebec in a few weeks time. He said it was the beginning of the end, in reference to our roommate arrangement. I replied that in fact it was the end of beginning.
After Sean left, I finished my College program and found a job that has since become a career. But even for all the ways that my life has changed since then, including the passing of my father, I must say that this feels like the end of my beginning.
While I sit here in my Mom's appartment on my last night here, I think of all things that may change while I am away on this trip. And not just while I am away either, because for some reason I sense that everything will be different for me long after I return. Of course I can't qualify a remark like that. I just feel the Force.
" Difficult to forsee, always in motion is the future"
So, so long Canada. You are not an easy place to leave.
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