What is it like moving across the country?

[Mircat]

Get used to moving. Military people don't stay in places for long periods of time. It sounds like you beat the record staying where you are now. It takes a certain kind of personality to get used to leaving it all behind and starting over. Wish your friends the best but don't make big gushy promises to stay in touch and call, and write, and text, and go visit. Most of it won't happen or will stop within a few months. Just wish each other the very best futures and suggest keeping in touch on birthdays or holidays or when something important happens. If you contact in between fine but don't make a big deal out of promising because when it all becomes a big bore and you have nothing in common any more, it makes it difficult to let go then. If your friends are military brats then this all changes because they understand and who knows you might wind up on the same base again one day.

http://spousebuzz.com/blog/2012/08/the-s...ships.html - while this is talking about wives, it might work for friends too.

http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/person...tary-Brat/

http://www.ong.ohio.gov/frg/FRGresources...ildren.pdf

"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ~Frederick Buechner"