Love Letter

Dear Lara,

Hi! It's been a long time. How are you? I hope you're doing fairly better than our last time together.

As with any other year, 2005 flew right by us. In retrospect, we spent a lot of quality time together, you and I, but I know you are beginning to detach yourself from me. That is not such a bad thing, you know. You're growing and beginning to see that there are better people to spend your time with. Your views and aspirations have altered, along with your disposition. You're not as defensive but you have grown more aggressive. You've grown more comfortable with new things and more flexible in terms of accepting situations or events that don't quite meet your expectations. You're fortifying old friendships and establishing new ones. You now have a team that I know you love and are proud of because your team performs well despite all the sadness and hurts that you've experienced as a part of it. There are times that you prefer to spend most of your time with your team mate than with me for reasons that are sometimes not altruistic, but I take no offense. I accept that I'm not the only person that you rely on now but that makes me worry a bit. You know how much I worry. Thank God for you and for those who remind me not to. Do you remember our long-standing belief that the more people that you attach yourself to, the greater the risk of disappointment there is? The world outside our own is scarier indeed. My dear, I can see that we're gradually drifting apart. Our safe place does not leave you content anymore. And if that is the case, then I think that you're stronger now than I expected you to be.

As I slowly loosen my hold on you, I promise that I wouldn't be too far away because I can't even if we both wanted to. I know you have new needs and you now need new people. But know that we will always need and have each other. I will never be far. May your new year be even better. It hasn't started out great but it will soon take off. If we only have more faith.

Be good always. Do not replace virtues with transitory happiness. God bless!

Always,

Lara