Goodbyes And Badbyes

The subtle difference between goodbyes and farewells is the casual nature of the former as opposed to the finality of the latter.

Where both point to an ending, one demands far greater conviction and understanding than the other.

Life is filled with conclusions and a conclusion taken to its logical completion can be a termination.

Fortunately that same life is also filled with beginnings, introductions and promise.

Enjoyment and satisfaction are both determined by where we choose to focus our attention.

While it is impossible to avoid the intrusion of either in our lives, we decide whether we will be happy or sad.

Goodbyes may make us happy because they are rarely permanent. Farewells, however, come at a point where a relationship ends either by choice or circumstance.

Whether we win or lose, fail or succeed it’s not the incident that is of most importance.

If there were no endings then neither would there be any beginnings. They sit at either end of the spectrum of emotional incidents that is our life demanding our attention and doing so at often the most inopportune of times..

What we do with what we have either at the beginning or the end will determine our satisfaction as well as our degree of contentment.

It’s a responsibility that we sidestep or delay at our peril.