Stay

As the elder Offspring gear up to go back to college, and as we continue to be aware of Cherished Friend's absence from our ordinary lives, we listen to today's earworm:  I wish you'd stay, by Brad Paisley.

It's not quite accurate -- it's not that we wish for them to stay; we just wish that their leaving wasn't so hard on the heart.

Then again:

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh