An Open Letter

Dear room-mate,

I want to thank you for the past six months. During the time we have lived together, you've not only been welcoming and engaging, you've been kind, considerate and basically, perfect.

What do I love about you? I just can’t narrow it down. A stand-out, though, is your radiant smile. When you walk into a room it simply lights up, and your effervescent glow is shared with everyone you encounter. In fact, I would even go so far as to say this smile of yours is something you’re renowned for.

Can we talk for a moment about your popularity? Everywhere I turn I find people singing your praises. I'm genuinely astonished you haven’t yet been given an honorary sainthood. I'm sure it’s only a matter of time. When I think about all the qualities I long to possess, I simply look to you. You are the epitome of grace, humility, love, kindness and generosity of heart and spirit.

I've never heard you speak a bad word about anyone on purpose, and if something happens to slip out by accident, you admonish yourself repeatedly until you finally come to terms with the fact you may actually have a flaw. Never fear my dear, it is minor. 

Something people often overlook is your sense of pride. Never have I met a person so fastidious in maintaining not only their personal appearance, but also their home. It is like I've been living in an advertisement for a display home, in a place always scrubbed clean to within an inch of it's life lest a magazine photographer turn up at the spur of the moment to get pictures for the next edition of House & Home. 

Honestly though, it's the little things I'll miss terribly. Like the way you would always offer to take the garbage out when it got full, or the way you would clean the bathroom without being asked, or all the times you got home in the wee hours of the morning and crept in quiet as a mouse in an effort not to wake me. And then there's the way you would always say hello and ask me how my day was, even if you were struggling yourself.

 

From the bottom of my heart, I say thank you. There hasn't been another like you who has had such a profound impact on my life, and I don't know if there will be again. 

Love,

Belinda