Goodbye

I don't like saying goodbye. It's a sad word. I've only actually ever said goodbye out aloud once, and that was when I was struggling to get any words out at all, and was followed by the only time I've walked away without looking back.

They're such definite words, and you don't know what is going to happen at the other end of them.

Good.

Bye.

When you say "see you later" or "bye bye" there's no sadness to them. Goodbye is essentially wishing a person or something well because you won't be seeing them again for a time.

On the flip side, if we don't say goodbye, we'd kinda be frozen in motion forever, never quite experiencing or tasting life, not going through doors, not facing our fears.

I like facing my fears, as daunting as they are, there's something powerful and relieving about doing that.

But I don't like goodbyes.

Would it be better to sit forever in one spot, content in not knowing, or to be unsatisfied?