Saudades
I've forgotten what it's like when a friend goes away, and that feeling you get inside like you might never see them again. I've experienced this feeling several times before and the three times that stick out in my mind the most are leaving the US for Brazil for my exchange program, coming back to the US at the end of the program, and last night and today because Fe is going back to Brazil. When I went to Brazil I was leaving my family and friends behind for practically a year and I hardly talked to my friends when I was there and when I got back I felt like I was astranged from them all. I was no longer one of them, but a foreigner. The hardest thing I have ever had to do was leave that magical place to come back to Athens two years ago. My roommates were like my brothers, and the friends I was leaving behind and I shared a bond that my friends here can't understand. The stories of my adventures and experience in Brazil aren't interesting to my friends in the US, and I missed out on a year of their lives and don't know about anything that happened when I was away.
Fe told me last night that she doesn't want to leave because of all of the friends she has made here, and I understand here although I didn't shed as many tears as she did. I realize that now as she is boarding her flight at Hartsfield Intl Airport that she is teary-eyed and upset. As the plane takes off and circles over Atlanta and heads off toward Rio de Janeiro that her tears will start flowing, and the stewartess will come and check on her.
Why is it so difficult to say goodbye? is it the finality that those words have that cause us such anguish? A Peruvian friend of mine doesn't like it when people say Adios, because of this reason I think. Adios, Goodbye, or however you say it in everylanguage has the same meaning...someone is leaving and you will never see that person again.
Fe told me last night that she doesn't want to leave because of all of the friends she has made here, and I understand here although I didn't shed as many tears as she did. I realize that now as she is boarding her flight at Hartsfield Intl Airport that she is teary-eyed and upset. As the plane takes off and circles over Atlanta and heads off toward Rio de Janeiro that her tears will start flowing, and the stewartess will come and check on her.
Why is it so difficult to say goodbye? is it the finality that those words have that cause us such anguish? A Peruvian friend of mine doesn't like it when people say Adios, because of this reason I think. Adios, Goodbye, or however you say it in everylanguage has the same meaning...someone is leaving and you will never see that person again.