离别是短暂的，友情会永远留在我们的心里。

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Here and there, once in a while, I still carry with me the remnants of the broken pieces of my heart because it is a reminder that my heart once felt so strongly about something, and it has ached so badly too because of that something.

I still miss all of that, I still feel a little ache sometimes when I'm reminded of what I've lost too, caught unknowingly. But today for the first time, I feel this strong urge to not look at what I've lost, but to rejoice in the fact of what had happened. We happened.

Last year on exchange, I posted an instagram post with the caption of "Smile because beautiful things happened''. The original quote had a second part in front, which goes like "Don't cry because it has ended ... Smile because it happened." But I omitted the first part. No doubt, I was referring to this same thing, and also about my whole exchange journey as well.

It made a lot of sense to me back then, and it gave me a lot of enlightenment back then.
And today I wanna remind myself of that again, to be thankful and grateful because those were some of the best periods of my life, and I should smile because I feel lucky that they happened to me.

You were part of some of the best times of my life, and for that I'll always be thankful.