The Formal.

Guys, this post was always coming.

The formal was great, and there is no doubt in my mind about it. I'm not the sort of person to reflect upon events though. My grasp of the English language is not superb enough that I can orchestrate a night of dreams and wonder and exuberance in your head. So I shall refrain from talking about the formal.

They say great people talk about ideas.
That average people talk about things.
And that small people talk about other people.

And if the formal has taught me anything, it's that I am a small person, an average person, and I have the propensity to be a great person, and I think I'm going to try kill two birds with one stone here and be a small person and a great person at the same time.

The people with whom I have had the pleasure of company with are the people who to a point define me. The Ebony to my Ivory, the Vincent to my Jules, the Belle to my Sebastian. They are the people who I have grown up with, they are the people who have taught me how to be myself. You are all more than people to me, you are impressions left permanently on my existence. And while it's possible, I don't ever think I will ever meet a group of people more sound and awesome as you guys will. I don't think I will ever develop greater bonds and friendships than the ones so axiomatically tranquil present in the ones we share now.

I will never see any of you as just a person, you will all represent something more to me - something that brings forth within me a sense of just humility. Danger, caution, risk, reward, rash, reason, fear, happiness etc. You are the faces behind the raw emotion I feel in life.

And I guess all I'm trying to say is that I'm grateful, so fucking grateful that I've met all of you and have had the pleasure of getting to know you well, and I've no need to justify this - because I can't - but also because such an attempt to do so wouldn't bring the feeling I have to justice. And I'm thankful for everyone who's been sharing this arduous and often tenuous journey with me.

Blood is thicker than water, but you guys transcend blood (probably something like cranial fluid).