Daily writing prompt

Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.

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Leaving college was difficult to me, and I think a lot of people look back with fondness at their college years. Of course, you know very definitively when your time in college will be ending for the most part, so it was a long goodbye. Some things, I was very happy to part ways with. Others, I knew I would miss and never get to have again. I’ll never live a few doors down from my closest friends again. It was a time where my friends were the most important people in my life. A time where my academic goals were the top of my priority list. A time where I went out at 11:00p for pancakes, and hosted roller skating events, and ran in fountains, and played sardines in the dorm, and studied the history of Hip Hop music for academic credit. I could be an adult and cook and study interesting things, and also a kid playing sardines and hiding things in the ceiling. In college, you’re an adult and a kid. It’s fun, it’s wild, it’s educational, and so many other things. The smartest people I’ve ever met are people I met in college. (Also, the least smart people, but they didn’t usually stick around.) College was hard to say goodbye to and I often find myself nostalgic for those years gone by, but I wouldn’t go back. There’s plenty good about not being in college and I value the new relationships I have now and the ways that my friendships have changed in adulthood, but I can’t help but to wistfully look back at the good parts of those years and wish I could have savored them a little better. Seasons of life are full of both good and bad parts, and the bad parts have faded in memory but the good parts stand out with a rosy shine.