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There are reasons why people dislike “send-offs”. Unlike “goodbyes”, its usually more negative. If you put the farewells in order, the highest, the most positive one would be “See you again!!”. Then followed by “Goodbyes”. The worst would be seeing your friends off.
It’s not the parting that marks it a sad and depressing occasion. In fact, it may even be a positive occasion, especially when you’re seeing off somebody-you-don’t-really-like-but-don’t-have-a-choice-of-not-sending-him/her-off. My point is, you can feel either happy and sad while sending someone away or even both at the same time.
But there’s always these at the end of every sending off. You’ll wonder: why aren’t you on that cab, train, ship, or plane. What in the world are you sending people off repeatedly replays itself like a broken projector in your mind. You thought you had come to terms long ago that you are never going to get on that cab/train/ship/plane.
I can tell you, despite all those feeling, nothing would top this: the feeling of being left behind. In its strictest sense, you are being left out. You’re omitted from embarking the same journey your friends are taking. You’re one of the few, maybe even the only one, to remain stagnant at where you are.
That’s why people would rather not meet, for every meeting ends with separation. I would rather avoid “send-offs”, so that I’m spared this melancholic, self-denial, confession of a person in solitude, feeling left behind.
But then again, would there be “send-offs” without anybody being left behind?
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