Re: In today's news...
Here it is, The evening before. Ready to roll, ready to bail......
And I almost want to stay... There's a tugging here at my heart I didn't expect. When I first found this little shit hole of mine, and repaired it, made it really mine, I named it Shangri la. My own personal paradise, something to truly call my own.
I spent days with my best friend as my roommate in Shangri la, Met my Wife, got married, had and raised my daughter... In Shangri la, in my little Haven repaired and maintained with my own hands...
9 Years. 9 Years and that decade after the flower of my youth has been the most hectic of my life so far. Any excitement aside, none of it measured to the 9 years in this place, my little corner of the world, with all it's flaws, and little problems that made it unique, that made it mine...
It will be torn down within hours of my leaving, and that tears at my heart as something newer, something... different takes it's place, and it's history becomes nothing more then a memory.
As I carve it's name into the wall as a final farewell... I cry, soft tears, quiet tears for what is almost the death of a silent friend. Material, certainly, but a memorial to my marriage, to my daughter, to the breaking of that marriage, and to all the years and memories that took place within this small, unique little home.
Wish me luck, raise a drink... For me, All my friends here, if you call me friend, raise a glass to Shangri la. A toast to the closing of another chapter of my life. A toast to the memories that now will only stand monument within my heart and mind. A Toast, to years passed and the birth and death of a family, and to bonds that transcend blood, all within these humble walls.
To Shangri La.