Saying Goodbye

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3 weeks til graduation. I feel so sad already. I made some wonderful friends I may never see again. I have already cried with the thought about that. Maybe I am just menstrual. I am little scared to go to the going away party because I’ll be water-works. If I am crying now, how will I keep together when the actual day premiers. Gosh it is so difficult for me to say goodbye to people.
 
Go to the party. There might be some tears, but if you miss it and still ship off to the four corners of the earth without it, you’ll undoubtedly regret it. The chances are that you’ll have a great time and not start crying until the party is over, or at the end. That’s OK. Your friends will be touched to know how it hurts you to think of parting from them. They might be very hurt that you were so afraid of crying that you wouldn’t give them a chance to mark this parting with you in a suitable way.

If you’re not leaving because you were fired from your job, heading off to prison, or for some other ignoble reason, this is a command performance. You need to go, so don’t even ask yourself if you want to go or not. Go with bells on, then.

Bring a little notebook and make sure you have a calendar handy, so you can write down plans for keeping in touch. What you talk about but do not write down will not happen.
 
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Go to the party. There might be some tears, but if you miss it and still ship off to the four corners of the earth without it, you’ll undoubtedly regret it. The chances are that you’ll have a great time and not start crying until the party is over, or at the end. That’s OK. Your friends will be touched to know how it hurts you to think of parting from them. They might be very hurt that you were so afraid of crying that you wouldn’t give them a chance to mark this parting with you in a suitable way.

If you’re not leaving because you were fired from your job, heading off to prison, or for some other ignoble reason, this is a command performance. You need to go, so don’t even ask yourself if you want to go or not. Go with bells on, then.

Bring a little notebook and make sure you have a calendar handy, so you can write down plans for keeping in touch. What you talk about but do not write down will not happen.
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Your second paragraph had me laughing so hard.
 
Isn’t it so, though, that with Facebook and social media and everyone electronically interconnected these days, that goodbyes are not as permanent as they once seemed? My son keeps up with classmates from grade school, high school, and college where ever they are, and frequently gets together with those who are close.

Congratulations on your upcoming graduation!
 
Oh yeah. I totally forgot social media. It is still cry-worthy to me. Things will never be like the once were. GOSH I SOUND SO MELODRAMATIC. I blame it on my fluctuating hormones.
 
I thought you were saying good bye to us at CAF!!! 🤷
Congratulations and enjoy your upcoming partay!!! 😉
 
At my graduation I thought nobody liked me particularly. But I was wrong. There were a few that did.
 
CRATUS said:
3 weeks til graduation. I feel so sad already. I made some wonderful friends I may never see again. I have already cried with the thought about that. Maybe I am just menstrual. I am little scared to go to the going away party because I’ll be water-works. If I am crying now, how will I keep together when the actual day premiers. Gosh it is so difficult for me to say goodbye to people.
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What kind of school are you graduating from?
 
CRATUS said:
Oh yeah. I totally forgot social media. It is still cry-worthy to me. Things will never be like the once were. GOSH I SOUND SO MELODRAMATIC. I blame it on my fluctuating hormones.
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Unfortunately, if things were to stay the way they are, it would eventually get to be pathetic. You have the rest of your lives calling, and some of you need to go somewhere else to live them. The time has come. Embrace each other, shed a few tears, but then embrace the next thing and the next people. When you get to be very old, you’ll need this ability to make new friends when the old ones depart. Make that your habit of life.

Just as older people can get their old worn-out joints replaced with something like a substitute because we live in the 21st century, just so you can “keep in touch” to some degree because of our fast and essentially free communication, unknown in any age before our own. It isn’t really being together, but it has some things to offer over the alternatives.
 
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Bring a little notebook and make sure you have a calendar handy, so you can write down plans for keeping in touch. What you talk about but do not write down will not happen.
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Don’t forget that notebook and pencil!

I hope college will be a largely happy memory in spite of any “nightmares” and stresses. There is something special about an alma mater. One can have one’s “memorials” of “where I learned such-and-such” or even “where my favourite lunch kept my morale up in the refectory” or “the view from my window at digs”.
 
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