Dear Ghana,
After the amazing summer we spent together, you deserve better than this, but saying goodbye to you in person is too hard for me to do. I hope you will understand that even though I love you, I need to do this. I need to get back to my life in the US. I need to leave you.
I will always remember the weekends we spent together in Cape Coast and at the waterfall in Wli. You were just so beautiful; I was absolutely speechless when I saw you; I couldn't take my eyes off of you. At the waterfall, I could have just stayed and listened to you whisper to me forever.
I owe you so much for guiding me through so many new experiences. I cannot thank you enough for all that you have shown me. It was all just amazing. I wish I could repay you for introducing me to so many good friends. Sam has been so good to me since I met him, and the volunteers in Swedru, I will never forget them. I hope leaving you doesn't mean I can't still be friends with them. I know that you knew them first, but I just can't take losing both you and them.
I feel bad about not giving you more of my time; I was always working or busy with friends. I should have paid more attention to you. I should have traveled with you to the North. I should have learned more about you. You deserve better, Ghana. I have no doubt that you will find someone else. Even when I was with you, I saw how others looked at you. You will be fine without me.
I still love you, Ghana, and I will miss you more than you ever know. Leaving you is hard, but I need to do it for me. I only hope that you will understand, and I hope that someday when you've forgiven me, I can see you again.
Love,
Julian
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