Hello friend,

I am writing this to you, a friend I have never met but hope I will be able to meet some day.
The currents of the sea brought this message in its bottle to you. The currents of fate may one day do the same for us.

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It is hard for me to put my thoughts to paper. I have always been one to choose action over words, which is amusing considering my role in this world. But that is not what I wanted to write about.

I do not know if you have only just arrived to Eorzea or, like me, you have been wandering under her skies for many years now.

If you have only just arrived, please give these people a chance. There are many diamonds in the rough to be found and the bonds you forge with your fellow travelers might prove to be even more enjoyable than you can imagine right now.

If you are another old adventurer, I hope that you have found yourself those companions. If you have, hold on to them closely.

I have, and they have been of immeasurable importance in my life. There was a time when I was battling a most dangerous foe destroying my body from the inside-out and without their support, even past the Source and her reflections, I would have been lost.
Enduring the Apothecaries foul chemicals became more bearable when I would think about them and the promises made to return.

I am running out of paper...

I was asked to write down my personal fondest and favorite memory of my time here, but I can not choose a single one. Every memory I have made with my friends here is dear to me and to single out one would diminish the others.
So I will simply state that my adventures on this world and the one beyond the Rift together are my fondest memory; a memory that grows larger and fonder with every day spent.

To you, unmet friend, I wish you will feel the same when the day comes to write your own message.

Yours truly,
A wandering Monk.

P.S. If we have met, I hope that I have left a good impression. I may sometimes be a little more 'rough' than 'diamond'.

( Chosen prize: Noble Barding )