Farewells

It's hard to say goobye. There will always be the day where you'll have to end a chapter in your life. The time has come for Brent. After spending more than four months in the Burn Unit in the hospital, he was ready to move on, or was he? He started depicting the hospital as his home as he started to feel more and more confortable with the place and the people. "I don't know, I got used to everything and everyone, it seems like my home here now. I know this sounds crazy, but I don't really want to leave, I really don't." (Page 137). You could see how everything and everyone changed him while he was in the hospital. He showed how comfortable he had become. Though life is full of changes and one has to accept that.

You could say I'm pretty much of an expert on change. Living in eight different countries, moving every two years, and studying in five other schools has given me a taste of change. When people ask me how I can simply go away to a different country and start all over again I say it's normal for me. I was brought up that way and I have never actually fought with my parents for staying and settling down. Though I have now grasped the importance of settling down these past years as I lean closer to independence. Deciding to graduate here in Colombia has almost been my final choice but you never know. I too have felt Brent's unhappiness to leave a special place behind. It was a shock for me to leave from Italy to Colombia after having stayed three and a half years (the longest) there with friends and family so close. I had made myself confortable like Brent has, making friends and memories. But when every chapter closes another one opens.