“Sorry” isn’t the most difficult word to say. It’s goodbye.
Sorry isn’t the most difficult word to say ( whateverwaiwan.tumblr.com )
After these few days, I’ve begun to wonder whether I would have the courage and the strength to leave Singapore when it is my turn two years later. I mean, if saying goodbye to just two people is so difficult, how will I ever bear to say goodbye to everyone in Singapore – my family, my friends, the places that I loved to go to, and my home.
I guess for them it must have been the same feeling, and that made me feel all the more speechless. While they were packing, out shopping for things to bring overseas, it must have felt like a dream. I didn’t know what I could say, or how I could say anything at all in the first place. I was awkward, afraid, anxious, unsure and petrified all rolled into one. It was all so surreal until the moment I looked at the clock and realized it was just about time for them to check-in their luggage and walk through to look for their plane.
I guess it has already sunk in that many people are on the way to greater things in their lives. All I can say is that I’m terribly proud of them. Of where they are now, and where they are headed. I’m proud of the courage that they have had to venture out into the open – to a bigger ocean, a bigger lake, a bigger pond.
They have, after all, matured into greater and bigger fish, fully capable of taking on the world.
Wherever you guys/girls are – if there is anything I can do, I will do my best. A thousand times over. (Like Hassan said in The Kite Runner – “For you, a thousand times over.”)
well said, wai wan. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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