Saying Goodbye
Saying goodbye can be a choice or a necessity. A want or a need. Easy or hard.
More often than not, saying goodbye is hard, even if it’s a want rather than a need.
Many goodbyes happen as part of the natural cycle of life. You say goodbye for the first time when you go off to school. It’s a bit of a scary adventure, but it is only the beginning of a long journey.
You say goodbye if/when you go off to college/university. There is also the first apartment, the wedding… There are also the hard goodbyes that we had no choice but to say when the death of a loved one occurs.
And there is always the goodbye(s) you never got the chance to say…
Goodbyes are all around us and happen dozens of times through our lives.
Today I would like you to think of one of the times you have said goodbye. Try thinking about the hardest goodbye you have ever had to make. Think of how old you were, where you were, who you were with, and who/what you had to say goodbye to.
What made the goodbye hard to say/do? Why were you saying goodbye? Were you leaving physically? Emotionally? Was someone else leaving? Was saying goodbye your choice or something that was forced? Did you regret saying goodbye?
Tap into all the senses surrounding the event and recreate the scene in a way that someone else could read it and feel what you felt.
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