Goodbyes and Hellos

“Someone says, goodbyes are part of life. For every goodbye there's another hello that awaits. Still it's so difficult to say goodbye. I've been trying hard not to cry. But I'm only human.”

“If someone asked me how I'm feeling, I won’t know what to say.Everything is mixed... So excited and yet so sad.I'm gonna miss everyone here. I'm gonna miss the flower blooming in spring, the real hot summer, the color of the trees in fall, and even the worst winter.So, my life in America is formally over.Close the curtain, let the next chapter begins...”


Excerpted from a blog my dear friend Windy Kurnia Irawati posted on February 18, 2005, (upon her return to the motherland).

I love this blog. I think it’s one of the best she has yet written.


I hate goodbyes. I think everyone does.
Especially when we don’t really know if we’re ever going to meet with them ever again.

Once again, I will have to say goodbye.
This time to my own feelings.

I'm tired of being sad.
I'm tired of being jealous.
I’m tired of being irrational.
I'm tired of being over dramatic.
I'm tired of being a paranoid freak.
I'm tired of being me.

My only remedy refused to cure me.
And I am only left alone to self heal.
To be happy by myself.
To say hello to the beauty of tomorrow.

I think I can do that.
I have to.

And this time, I won’t have to rely on anything anymore.
I won’t be afraid to say goodbye.

Coz it’s true, another hello awaits me.