49~ Goodbyes

Rosaria

Goodbye. The saddest word one can ever say to a loved one. I wonder why there’s a ‘good’ in that word because there’s nothing good about it. No matter how it is said, it always causes heart break. Whether it’s a child going to college and temporarily leaves his or her parents. Or a loved one moves to another town. Sometimes it may just be an employee leaving a workplace he or she had gotten accustomed to.

The fact remains, anything associated with the word ‘goodbye’ is sad and it causes pain and heart break. This was why, it was very hard for me to say my last goodbyes to my parents. No parent would love to see their child leave before them. I was a sinner for making them go through such pain.

“Mom, don’t cry please,” I said as I couldn’t take my mother’s sobs anymore. They had all come to visit me an hour ago and had refused to leave my sight after I narrated the situation to them.

“Rosa, why didn’t you tell us anything? No wonder you didn’t