Saying Goodbye is hard!

My sister has left to Korea for the next year. I left her at the airport on Monday and it was hard to hold back the tears. Seeing my sister leave to Korea for a year. My sister and I are extremely close not only in age 1 year difference but we share everything. We are both artist and have been there for each other when no one else has been there. We have become each others support system which has helped when we needed that support from someone to keep us going with our dreams. At times we've had to fight extra hard for whatever we accomplish. I guess thats the way life is when you come from a broken home. Its something that we have dealt with our entire lives and yet have managed to make our goals a reality. So saying goodbye to my sis was hard because we have always been relatively close in proximity of each other but now she is 12 hrs away and there's a 16 hrs difference. As my mom and I stood there waving goodbye to her my eyes were glassy from holding back the tears that growing up is hard to do and saying goodbye is even harder to do as well. It felt like there goes my sister all grown up now, becoming an adult an independent women something we have committed ourselves to being. I am proud that she is so brave to leave to a foreign country that most people frown upon because they are comfortable with where they are. But for people like my sis and I traveling and being independent is one of our major goals in life. I know it will be hard to get a custom to her new surroundings but like everything that is new is difficult and uncomfortable but with time you make friends learn new things and it grows to an experience that you will never forget. If everything works out for my sister and she is ok with Korea I will get the opportunity to come and visit in Christmas which would be amazing. So far its been amazing to be able to talk to her online. I love technology for that reason being able to communicate with on aim has been awesome and asking her all the 20 thousand questions I have and my parents have. I can't wait for pictures to come already I want to see where she is living. So in the meantime while she is gone and I am adjusting to her not being with me it will be a valuable experience on my part as well. Being independent from her and doing my own thing without my sister will be interesting I know at some point siblings have to grow apart and move apart from each other and live their lives. So will see what the next couple of months bring.