The hardest thing to say:

You know as I get older, the hardest thing for me to say is goodbye. So many people in our lives decide to come and go, you graduate high school, people go to different colleges and before you know it, you have a family and no one has the time anymore. Being a college student this is especially hard because your placed in totally new environment without your family and to make new friends, but even the friends that you make might transfer to another college or might decide that college is not for them.

For a person like me that loves people this is very hard for me to watch people go just as fast as they came and I am sure I am not alone in this. Some of the hardest moments when I think back is when I had to say goodbye to someone I really cared for, when was the last time you had to say goodbye?

A lot of the time when we see our parents cry at graduation or when we finally get married is because there watching make the first step into the rest of our lives outside of their household. But even though goodbye sounds negative it teaches us a lesson we all need to learn and value, if we never had to say goodbye then we would never have to value the people or the things around us. We would also never be able to move on to the next step because we said "goodbye" to the first one.

The next steps or stages in our lives often hold such bigger and better things like more friends, better classes, and more freedom but we spend so much stuck on the fact that we had to say goodbye that miss the blessings right in front of us, the past is meant to push you forward not to hold you back, as we all get older we must learn that some things in our lives are only meant to be there for a season, not a lifetime. Yes I am talking to myself when I write this and yes this is one of the hardest lessons to learn in life but it is something we all learn or we will never move forward.

So next time you have to say goodbye to someone look at it as you taking all the lessons you learned from that person and never forgetting there impact on your life, only to move forward and apply those lesson they blessed you with.