"Hello." "Goodbye."
Everybody says them, not only in daily life, but in friendships, in geographical places, to people. So many people come and go into our lives in each season of our life.
The life of an mk is especially filled with greetings and farewells. You finally make a friend w/ whom you share everything, and suddenly they have to go back to their home countries. Two years ago, I was the one to leave and left behind all those people I had known for the most of my life.
It was a cheerful hello to greet my family here at home in Izmir, Turkey again, and to see my brother after not having been w/ him for over a year. Saying goodbye to him today was like saying goodbye to the world again. It's as if each time you say hello/goodbye, your heart stretches more and more, hurting more each time, but each time being filled again w/ something new.
It hurts to see friends and family go; it hurts to leave those you love; it hurts to see good times pass; it hurts to let others into your life again because you know the time will come when you say goodbye again. The farewell may not be forever, but as time goes on, things become more uncertain, unknown, and more dangerous. There are those who let noone share into their lives--they don't share their heart, they don't share joy and sorrow--thinking they will spare themselves sorrow when people move on. But is that right too? What about those who open up to each person, and share their lives willingly? From experience I know this takes much courage and strength as you grow attached to something and then have it stripped away from you. But what a boring and lonesome world this would be if everyone did keep to themselves, who, due to the pain of departure, never even say hello.
I write this with a sigh...knowing many hellos and goodbyes are still to come. For me, goodbyes to family members is the hardest and the most heart-wrenching, not knowing when I will see them again.
But I send Simi away w/ blessing, love, and courage. My goodbye will be someone else's hello. Be blessed, bro.
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