The one With Goodbye 2009.

Dear 2009,

I just got off the phone with a friend who told me to say some nice things about you.

I'd be lying if I say that you are a great company.

We have our misfits and frowns amongst other things.

But we have our triumphs and grins as well.

I cannot seem to wrap the idea of leaving you soon around my head.

I tsk tsked at the fact that I'm uncertain of the way we are leaving things.

Are we in good terms?

I have 4 days more to spend with you.

Allow me to be cheesy and say that if there's one thing who sees me and really knows me, it would be you.

I oftentimes lie to my friends and family, and sometimes myself how I really feel.

But it is you who've been there all along.

It is you who sees my every tears and hears my every plea.

Remember how much time you and I spent treating patients?

You were with me and saw most of them walk again, and some of them... gone.

You're the one responsible for my 24th birthday. It was sad but I still want to thank you.

Thank you. For the music, movies, TV shows, computer games, good books that you have created this year. It sure helped a lot of people cope with boredom and the unending need for entertainment.

It was also your year when I spent four odd months in Manila.

It was September where you granted me a wish that I wish I couldn't have wished sooner.

To be in a land where every Filipino thought of going home but the economy is just too bad, they'd rather stay somewhere cold and lonely.

It was your year that I got to see and experience cities and sites and places that I just read in books and see in movies before.

It was your year that I cried most nights missing my family back home.

It was your year that I gave all my effort. Yet somehow you thought that it's not yet the time.

Maybe your friend, 2010 will bring me your gifts.

You gave me so much stress, you gave me a hard time, you were a pain in my ass.

But despite all that. You showed me beautiful things.. punched me in the face and told me how awesome my life is.

Thank you, 2009.

I love you, 2009.

Thank you for giving me the best times of my life.

love,

Emery