Well, sometimes things just don't turn out the way you expect them to. You have these grandiose ideas about your life and the people in them, but sometimes life has a different plan. Nothing was wrong, you were happy, but life just said here take this pile of crap and deal with it. Eventually you learn that goodbyes are a necessity with all the crap thrown at you, but other times you just cannot accept it. Especially being someone with a taste for wandering and an instinctual love for change, goodbyes are just the beginning. Sometimes there's heartache, other times there's a friend still waiting when you get back, but all the same goodbyes are hard. Goodbyes take time too. It's not just like one day you are crying into a bowl of ice cream and the next you are as happy and content as you can be. Trying to stay busy is the only way to cure sadness for me. I have to do things constantly and create input for myself to forget the sadness that comes with the word goodbye. Whether it is your fault or life's fault, you cannot change goodbye. You can try and reconnect and it may work for a little while, but eventually goodbye catches back up to you and you're doing it all over again. There is just no way to prepare for what comes with goodbye. Saying goodbye to a person, a place, a pet (especially), can be hard and sometimes you really don't know how to do it. Should you beat around the bush until it creeps up on you and forces it out of you? Should you be straight up and honest? (this is hard) There are multitudes of ways to say goodbye, but really they all end up the same. Creating a new path for your life while one door closes another one opens and all that jazz. However, eventually life will reveal its plan and you will end up finding exactly where you need to be with whomever you are supposed to be with. Again this doesn't mean that it isn't hard. It just means try to look to the future if you are feeling like life won't ever be the same. It may not be the same, but you will definitely realize that, in the end, everything does happen for a reason and there is a greater plan at work. Even throughout the sadness that you are experiencing find happiness in the fact that eventually you will be alright and eventually everything will workout for the better. So for now... Goodbye