Hello goodbye

I just realized that I really like my colleagues and my editor, and I can't help but feel scared of missing them when it's time for me to leave in three months' time (I'll get transferred to Raffles Quay to report local financial news). I know it's too early to fret, but I'm honestly very tired of saying goodbye and no matter how many times I say it to different people I'll never get used to it.

Meeting and parting are indeed part of life, but I do wonder sometimes who is going to stay at the end of the day. People whom I have formed a close bond with are now on the other side of the world, and I sincerely believe that keeping in touch is just a nice way of labelling a relationship that's been reduced to not even half of what it used to be. Face it, nothing can beat being together physically and sharing things. Everything else - talking on the phone, instant messaging, emailing, skyping - is just a poor substitute. Once we say goodbye that's it, we have to accept that we'll lose something precious and we have to let it go, until the next time we meet anyway.

But I guess I'll never stop saying hello. So I'll have to keep saying goodbye, and I hope that I'll never get so used to it that I don't feel anything when I say it.