“Goodbye”

This sole word brings with it so many emotions, distant memories flash past, remembering all of those wonderful times that happened. Sadness and pain is usually associated with this word, some goodbyes are harder than others, but all share the same excruciating element – sadness.

You know when things have come to an end when you have to say goodbye to your mates - not just friends that you have accumulated over the years, but the mates that you have spent the best part of 4 years with, the mates that sometimes know you better than you do, and the mates that have confided in you as you have with them for all those years. These are the people that you wish you didn’t have to leave, and it really hits you when you have to say that 2 syllable word to them, “Friends come and go, but real mates are few and far between”.

Looking back, all those things we did, the drives around with seemingly no purpose, the walks around the harbour talking about whatever the current issue of the day was, and the Saturdays doing nothing but walking and talking had a purpose however boring and monotonous that they had become, they still make up a big part of the happy memories.

There are of course people that I haven’t had the chance to say goodbye to, to all of these people I would like to say “Goodbye, and I wish you all good luck with whatever journey you choose to pursue”

The future is hanging over me like a lone rock overhanging from a cliff face, what happens in the next few days will undoubtedly be exhilarating, distressing and isolating. Everything will hit me at once – it will be a show only rivalled by the shock and ore campaign in the second Gulf War, there will be a short adjustment period where things will be overwhelming, but after that, things should get better, once the new surroundings make the transition from fresh to mundane and the shock and ore campaign lessons as the powers that be run out of missiles things should start to become more of a reaction than a action.

Questions still remain, only adding to the mounting anxiousness, things wouldn’t be so bad if the world being entered was one of certainty, but instead it is one of uncertainty, something only to be clarified once the atmosphere has been punctuated and the inhabitants have welcomed the new comers.

“The future is tomorrow, the present is today, what you do today will affect tomorrow”