Whenever it’s time to leave for a new place, you have this thing you have to do. If you don’t, you’ll regret it. You have to say your goodbyes.
Sometimes it comes twenty years later. You find the person again, and you have this moment. When it’s OK to finally let go. Of the thing. Of the idea. Of the concept of a relationship that really, well, isn’t what you had originally dreamed up.
Know why it’s important to say goodbye?
So you have closure.
Closing a chapter lets you open a new one.
From my India travel journal in 1999: “The end is only a beginning, the onset of a new phase.”
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