Bittersweet Farewells

So it ended as these things so often do with kindness, tenderness, tears and goodbyes. He boarded a plane, I boarded a ship, both bound for entirely different worlds. Someday I will look back at this time and smile. For now my heart just aches but I know there will come a day when I will find someone to share my heart and soul and life with, whatever stills remains when the time finally comes, someone who will love me proudly not shamedly, someone who will love me equally; a true partner. For now, that person shall have to be me. And you dear reader, do not despair for I do have vast worlds to conquer and the new adventure is just beginning. And now, to the ship.