Day 162

'How to turn a hoodie into an Octopus', Pen on Paper

A friend of mine was having a nautical themed leaving party as they were heading off to New Zealand, so I needed to think of a costume and after toying around with a few ideas I settled on this. It was something that seemed fairly simple to do and most of the materials I needed I had laying around already. There's not much more to say about the drawing as I think it's pretty self explanatory, so I suppose now is as good a time as any to talk about goodbyes. Goodbyes are something that we don't always get the chance to say and sometimes when we do it's never as poignant and bitter-sweet as we'd intended. As is already it is difficult enough for us to let go of a lot of the material things in our life as once we have had the pleasure of having them it is difficult to then imagine life without. It is difficult enough at the best of times for us to cope when we lose a meaningless and unnecessary object that really is only there for our convenience. So it is easy to understand why it's so difficult to say goodbye to something that we actually care about, that being our friends, family and loved ones, in saying this however understanding doesn't make it any easier. The unfortunate thing about it though is that for the most part when we had the chance to spend time with these people who are soon to leave our life we never made the most of it. In stead we were neglectful and now that we realise that our future interactions will be limited we scramble for a few more precious yet fleeting moments of their company before we must part ways. It is again a symptom of putting of until tomorrow something that we really should have done today. Furthermore once the goodbyes have been said it then becomes about trying to remaining in touch, making sure to reconnect whenever and wherever possible to stop yourselves from drifting apart. The inevitability is that more often then enough we fail to keep our promise to stay in touch and slowly these people become nothing more than nostalgic memories of things that once were. I think someone else possibly summed it up best when they said, 'Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye', goodbyes are the hardest part of any relationship especially when you're worried that you may never get the chance to say hello again. Personally I hate goodbyes for this reason, but I do believe that there are some people that we just refuse to let go. As such with them it's never a case of saying goodbye but more I'll see you soon, as we know that someday we'll meet again.