March 30, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a hello or a goodbye. You can pick any greeting that grabs you from howdy to fare thee well. It will be interesting to see how the collection intertwines the opposite greetings. Go where the prompt leads you.
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The saying goes that as one door closes, another opens. In my case, it’s a single door that hits me in the butt on the way out and any alternatives of windows are shuttered.
I find ‘Goodbye’ so final, and in many cases through my life, painful. Cheerio is much more acceptable, friendly and optimistic because it suggests the possibility of meeting again.
However, sometimes Goodbye is the only word than can possibly apply for things that cannot be undone or replaced.
I wrote a post on saying goodbye early in my blogging days. I still haven’t done it.
Not part of the challenge wording, you can read that post here
You are right Di, goodbye is a sort of final thing isn’t it, like when my parents died goodbye was all that I could say…
I was glad I was with my Dad when he passed away. It was the gentlest goodbye. I still miss him after all these years but he’s always with me.
Yes that’s true Di, they stay with us. I once read the dead do stay with us they are just in another room..
Goodbyes are hard. I like the “fare thee wells” and “vaya con dios” sort of goodbyes that wish the traveler, the passing and loved ones well. Beautiful tribute you wrote to your Dad.
Thanks Charli.
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