Saying Goodbye to Friends
Posted on Nov 6, 2009 03:34:00 PM
Ok, so it might get a little deep, but since I have time to kill I figured I would write my thoughts. Here I am, chilling just outside the bus on the road to Cirencester, to say goodbye to my father and his partner. I already had a weekend of farewells, and there were lots of tears flowing at work on Saturday and Sunday. But it made me think of how many times we say goodbye to people.
There are people that I have been very close growing up, but with words often implied that we said goodbye to our friends. There are great moments of change as you progress in childhood when people take different directions, the main one being a change of school. When primary school completion, many of my friends went to another school and we are all away, but it was ok because I found a new group. The other big change was after GCSEs when people left, either for work, college or other sixth. I had a group tight-knit friends, there were about 10 of us who were inseparable, but many left and everyone having busy schedules that I’m sad to say that we never really managed to get all 10 of us all together again. Perhaps it was because we were lazy and did not make enough effort, but thinking back on the jokes that we shared when we are young, it’s really a shame!
Now everyone is going in different directions again, all over the country and even the world and it becomes even more difficult to catch everyone up. This is where the magic of social media comes into play, but things like email, Facebook and Skype I know these unspoken goodbye would probably come across the drift again. It’s so much easier to keep in touch with your loved ones today. This is where I think travel has changed the most in 30 years without friendships and secure communication and it is easier to prevent this phenomenon today.
I know that I say farewell next week is not finished, but that does not make them easier to say. I’m looking forward just to say G’day to a new chapter in my life.