There are two approaches to say Goodbye:
APPROACH – I
- Hug the people no matter who they are.
- Feel the touch, the texture of their clothes. You may never get another chance. Kiss, if it is socially acceptable
- Take a mental picture. See the light falling on their face. At times the sunlight lasts forever.
- Imagine that you may never see them again and let a tear roll off. It doesn’t make you any weaker.
- Involve your other senses - Smell, all you possibly can, even if it is just a faint whiff of the garment. Hear all the sounds around. It will always bring you to the same spot.
- Whisper a bye and don’t look back.
APPROACH – II
- Stand tall. Be courageous enough to tell the truth and point straight to where you get off.
- Be surgical, a clean cut at a joint is much easier than axing half way between a bone. Do not offer to stay friends. If you could have stayed friends then there was no need to part ways in the first place.
- Do not offer reasons. If you have to justify yourself then you are being unfair to the other person, for sure.
- Share a bite, raise a toast and always pay your half of the bill before you get off the table.
- Shake hands and wish the other person a safe journey ahead.
- Say a bye…and yes, don’t look back.
Needless to add, in one form or the other, it will hurt either ways…
5 comments :
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Re the first approach... I think one should just kiss irrespective of whether it's socially acceptable or not... Kiss just because....
There is a third way. To just say it in your head and never have the courage to tell them. Just go away. Leaving open ends and open questions. A lot of ppl seem to be following the third one.
@CC - :)
@HDWK - Ah well, I agree most people do not muster up enough courage but then that wouldn't really count as the third approach. The approach, you see, is for 'Saying' a Goodbye and not voicing it in one's head.
Akshi: Undoubtedly the first one... that is more of a satisfactory thing that also lets you off the weight of all sorts of expectations, bitterness related with them and etc. etc.
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