First and foremost, thank you.

We’ve worked together for at least 6 years. I’ve depended on you more than you have depended on me, which is one of my regrets though working on an island attributed to that, I could have shown more initiative in learning what you’ve worked on to have helped you. Turns out, you and I had similar ideas to solve problems, we could have tackled them faster, more efficiently together. We were acquaintances for the first 4.5 years, just co-workers. Became pretty good automation partners the next few months, and have gotten close in the past year.

And now you’re leaving.

I didn’t know you also are pretty mellow. You hide it well. I wasn’t expecting similar wisdom to my own as I thought you were a bro. We are very much alike it turns out. It sucks that I couldn’t have known you better because I decided to keep work relationships at arms length. It was never necessary to have close ties with others. Boy, was I wrong. I became my most productive when I became closer to folks. Especially you.

I shared with you my current goal of app/game development on the side and you support it, giving your own take on it. I have admired your extracurricular project outside of work, now Im inspired to do my own. You’re right. I really don’t know what I can be good at, if I dont try. If I suck and fail, I’ll still learn. My fear of failure was what kept me from doing what I want. In reality, I just kept making excuses. Try it. I’ll lose everything if I don’t. If I try and fail,  I’ll still gain experience.

Who knows, maybe I might be able to lean on you in the future, and I’ll grow for you to lean on me. You’ve told D and I that you would want to start a project together outside of work. Quite honestly, I wanted to. I really did. Maybe we still can.

And I FINALLY, after two years, learned whose Yakult that was in the fridge. It was yours. Yeah, you didn’t like it but wow. It seems like Lady Fate is pulling strings in my life recently, I don’t know what kind of lesson or moral I took away from this. Heh.

Enjoy the next chapter in your life. I’ll be sure to keep you up to speed with mine. And oh yeah, we’re still going to see each other over KBBQ so this is not goodbye.

I’ll see you later.