Togetherness

So, I just came back from a short trip with the youth group from my church yesterday. The prayer meeting (?) theme was "Togetherness". As we shared our experiences about togetherness, I couldn't help but be thrown back to sometime 1 to 2 years ago.
Togetherness was as exciting as being constantly on our toes playing cards in the lift lobbies past curfew and running away from security guard doing his night round. Togetherness was as simple as Indomie party on the staircase. Togetherness was as plain as joking around for a short break from studying in the computer lab. 

I no longer have the luxury to experience all the mentioned above now. Most of us are now separated by the land, sea and time. It's such a contrast that we were previously in, most of us practically live under the same roof for two years! But life goes on, and people need to move on. In fact, just a few days ago, a few comrades met up for what would be our last meeting in a long time before they embark on their own adventures in yet another foreign land (while the others have actually started uni and some even finished a term!). I wish them the best of luck for the times to come. 

While the memories that I so dearly miss can neither come back nor be reenacted with different set of people, I hope the sense of togetherness can continue to live on with the people who are currently around me: family, new church and uni friends. Only through togetherness could I survive the 4 years in a foreign land, only when I felt a lot togetherness could I feel truly happy in the land I dreaded going to, only in togetherness can I feel at peace.