We had our goodbye ceremony tonight, and I thought I'd share how it went.
We decided not to call it the goodbye ceremony because that sounded too tragic. We called it the transition ceremony because we were close friends beforehand, and we see ourselves keeping a friendship between us. Therefore, we were celebrating the transition to our new friendship.
We started off by expressing all that we were grateful in our experience with each other. It was quite touching to hear each other express in a heartfelt manner all those things we were grateful for. Even coming up with my own list before we expressed our gratitude made me appreciate even more what we had gone through.
Then we expressed all the lessons we learned from our involvement with each other which was quite substantial as it has been quite a growth experience for both of us.
Finally, we expressed our wish for each other's future, including wishing more wonderful experiences for each other with other people.
We then kissed sweetly and happily considered each other as having graduated!
We thought it might be a sad ceremony, but it wasn't at all. It helped that we had been working for a few days on letting each other go. Thus, it was very touching, heartfelt and truly wonderful experience, and we are grateful and happy to have gone through it.