For some reasons, a friend of mine does not like to use the word “goodbye” when the time has come where one has to depart or to end a conversation, as if it might be something permanent rather than temporary after the farewell. Indeed, there are times where this particular word would stab us in the heart when it is spoken by one, depending on who that person is and under what sort of situations it may be. Let’s say one left another, leaving the word “goodbye” echoing in the ears, where tears coming down the cheeks but no sobbing are heard. Pretty dramatic isn’t it? However, “goodbye” plays a different role in a different situation as well. For examples, a couple hugging each other tight in the arms when they are about to be apart for another six months saying goodbye, one waving farewell to the bunch of friends and heads back into the train, leaving them the promises that he would be back once again when the time has come, person who steals a moment or two from the friends next door whenever the chance is given and the teacher is not in, half hopping and jumping he says “goodbye” and back to his original class. Words may be heart-warming when they are spoken from the bottom of the heart, but also can be heart aching at times and similar concept is applied to the word farewell. Perhaps it is to say that we should cherish every moment, every people and every object coming in between the days and nights of ours, but not to avoid the fact that we would be apart someday, somehow. “Goodbye” is originally derived from the phrase “God be with you” and we are still connected from one to another, though we are at different corner of the Earth, as the phrase explains it all. Adios my friends.
