I hate saying goodbye to someone. I, like your friend, take it as the last time we may ever meet. That to me... is heartbreaking. I don't often become close to people. Sometimes I attribute it to my personality, lack of a common ground or social anxiety. However, if you spend more than an hour with me, if I got to uncover some of your secrets and you uncover mine, if we laughed uncontrollably because of a stupid joke then; you are my friend. From now until forever. I don't care what you've done before or what you will become. In that short time in this brief life time of ours, I had the honor of being a little slice of it.
One day we will meet again, I know it. It could be at a friend's get together or halfway across the world or side-by-side on the subway or on some weird blogging website. If we remember each other is the tricky part.