Thank God for Maria Bravo, she told me what I would have told someone else, "We don't need to say goodbye, it's see you soon." I hate goodbyes, I've hated goodbyes since I was little. When my family would move, it was an awful feeling. I know I could put a positive spin on this and be the eternal optimist, saying things like "People are only a plane ride away" and that's very true..I know that and believe it..but sometimes, there's nothing easy about goodbye.
Maria also told me to look forward to what I was going home to, to lessen the pain of what I was saying goodbye to. In perfect timing, out of the blue Chris Waters fb chatted me and said the most randomly perfect thing:
"You know. I consider myself a pretty athletic guy. But that workout you put me through my freshman year was the hardest work out of my life. My abs were still sore 4 days later. I thought you'd like to know."
It was the out of left field and really made me laugh, good times.. genuinely "buena gente" as they say in Spain.
Likewise, I'm getting really excited about my first phone calls to be made from my english phone in Philadelphia.."It's MEEEEEEE!" I can't wait to hear your hellos after having said all my goodbyes.
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz
I have to tell you, I'm currently lounging on one of the comfy chairs with my feet propped up on the table, Eli is grading papers next to me and we are making plans for going to Pizza tonight. Maite is joking about eating caracoles because I told them they are eating little aliens, and she said while I eat pizza she's going to eat los cuernos, the horns (you know..the horns ontop of the snail?) What a random conversation..but those are the best kind.
Alright, to sum this up--we all hate saying goodbye. Whether it's temporary, for a few months, or in the worst case scenarios for a longer time. Because there is nothing fun or easy about having someone we love faraway, but we love them, so we do our best to put on a brave face (it's easier to say goodbye to someone who isn't crying..wouldn't you agree? but harder for the other person who is trying not to cry). We do crazy things like that for people we love.
I thought about writing a letter to the teachers, because I'm much better on paper than in person--but I think it's better instead, to make sure that when I say "I'll be seeing you", I need to mean it. Part of me knows, that I'll be back in Spain soon. It's too much a apart of me now to not come back. Maybe you'll be with me next time, life is unpredictable that way. I'm happy to come home, I've missed you.
Quotes that sum up my sentiments on goodbyes:
Para enero: Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau
Para febrero: Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ~Kahlil Gibran
Para marzo: There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.- Ghandi
Para abril: Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will.
Para mayo: How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.
Para junio: I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~Gilda Radner
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
- Abraham Lincoln
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