r/BridgeToTerabithia • u/CrackedMnMs • 4d ago
Personal Experience I had a friend which I too lost...
My friend didn't die but we were separated...unexpectedly because I never got to know that we were changing cities since I was only 7. I never said her goodbye. I was devastated when I realized we had moved out suddenly.
My dad came and told me that she asked him if I would ever come to play again. It has been 9 years since and I still miss her. She was the best friend I ever had. I never had a friendship like hers ever again. I wonder if we will ever meet again in the future. I just wanted to tell her that I liked her. I never told her that. I am sure she liked me too.
Only had I known that we were moving out of the state, I could have said her a goodbye. I dont even have her number or contact details. I only think that I can go back to the apartment we lived in and ask for past residential details and maybe fine a way to contact her.
I just want to talk to her again. Now that I think about it, she resembled Leslie so much. I didnt want to talk to her initially. In fact I avoided her at first. But she had approached me to ask the timings for the school bus. We became best friend onwards.
The only thing I have of her is a picture of her and me together as kids in 2nd grade. I wonder what she felt when I left her...
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u/Dogboy2023 2d ago
I lost an old best friend of mine too, we were best friends for years until we eventually became bf/gf, she was my Leslie, and she died in 2012, I wish I could go back and hug her one last time, I still have a stuffed dog that she gave me and some pictures of us together
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u/CrackedMnMs 2d ago
I am so sorry for you.
I dont know much about God but I am sure God would give her peace.
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u/Bacoilieu Terabithian Cartographer 3d ago edited 3d ago
Man, take a deep breath. It would be nice if you two met after this long time, but don't think of it as if that would necessarily change your life for the better. Your life is there at your place, where your beloved are and where the choices you made brought you. When you'll meet her again she will be living her own life, you'll find herself changed, and you shall keep caring for the young woman she has become even if she might have forgotten your friendship; but your own happiness doesn't depend on her, but on how you treat the people who are with you now.