Strange things happen when people realize you’re leaving a place - I feel that they immediately back away. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s a scientific human reaction. A form of self preservation. I’ve seen it and felt it so many times but now as graduation appears it all seems so real. I never thought it would be so hard leaving a place I had no desire in coming to for so many years. I’m now at the realization that most of my friendships have expiry dates. It’s a part of graduating, everyone moves away and life just happens. Some friendships last forever, but others just become strange. Someone you’ve seen every day for the last five years suddenly is gone from your life. new beginnings So how does one adequately say goodbye to the place that shaped them for so many years? Frankly, that is something I’m in the process of figuring out. Nobody wants to deal with the exhausting task and emotions of figuring out how . Victor Hunter and his words are something I think about quite often, one of my favourite quotes being on the idea of goodbye. “ Today I must say goodbye. Goodbyes are important. Without a meaningful goodbye, an effective closure, there cannot be a creative hello, a new beginning and hopeful commencement… in saying goodbye to each other and to our current ‘home’ we are able to greet and affirm new hope and anticipation. We affirmed the new journeys yet to be taken, as individuals and as a family.” I see the beauty in leaving somewhere in that it means you’re starting a new chapter - growing as a person. As humans we prefer to leave things in stand-by, just in case. Goodbyes are a very grown up thing. Not being able to turn back is painful. I’m not sure when it will hit me, whether it’s when I’m walking across the stage, cap and gown, or when I’m sitting in an empty classroom, after everyone's gone. Either way I know it’s coming and it won’t be easy. The pounding weight on my chest of what is to come, is not only holding me back but pushing me towards a new future. Something bigger and brighter. High School has taught me so much about the world, and about endings. Taught me about relationships, but made sure I had room for new ones. Reminding me that nothing is permanent, but no good thing should ever be taken for granted. And as I throw myself into my future, I’ll remember what it means to say goodbye, and how it shapes me as a person.
Emma O
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latham
6/14/2018 10:35:50 am
Gives some relistic ideas about life and has a very good meaning stemming from the start of the blog to the end.
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sophia
6/14/2018 10:36:18 am
I am graduating this year and am sruggling to comprehend it. i have so many assignments missings and only a week left but i know that if i want to start my new chapter in life i will get everything done.
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Ella McMillan
6/14/2018 10:38:29 am
Ahh I love this blog! I feel like leaving all that you have ever known is really hard but you are going to have the best time in the next chapter of your life so cherish it. Go into your next chapter with an open mind and I agree with feeling closure in the goodbyes. I'll miss seeing you around next year!
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Julia
6/14/2018 10:41:17 am
At least once in our lives, we all have to deal with leaving from one place that we stayed in for a long time. It could be tough for us to get use to a new place , but I do believe that we all have inherent power to get over it. Great blog!, I could genuinely related to this blog as my graduation from high school is only a year away from now.
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jacob enns
6/14/2018 10:41:44 am
i agree that leaving a place is sad, however there are good things to leaving, like how you'd remember all the great things about that place and that your starting something new and you get to start as a new person, at that point you have no reputation and therefore you get to choose what people perceive you as.
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donovan
6/14/2018 10:42:24 am
i too feel the way when a friend or something important leaves or goes away. it is very hard to get ride of the feeling. but on the bright side if you think of it you get ride of something that was making you feel angry or stressed
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Georgia
6/14/2018 10:48:10 am
This is a really good blog that addresses a topic everyone must go through multiple times throughout their lives. It was kinda sad and made me think about saying goodbye to you very soon but I know that you'll come back so it's all good. I really liked the quote, we affirmed the new journeys yet to be taken. Good job!
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brooklynn
6/14/2018 10:52:05 am
grads coming up super soon and I'm starting to get spooked. it hasn't fully hit me yet and honestly i'm kind of scared to, its gonna be messy. I'm ready to move onto bigger and better things though and i think we all are ready for the same thing and will be successful upon graduating :))
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Connor
6/14/2018 10:57:36 am
This blog made me cry in the club. I love how she talks about how goodbyes shape her as a person, and how she's learning to grow as a person through these various experiences.
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jennfier
6/14/2018 11:03:10 am
I kind of same feeling of this blog, because i am going to say goodbye next year, although I am still not prepared for going to my next journey, but i have to. This blog gives me the taste of leaving, and i like it.
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Emily Cocking
9/11/2018 11:34:20 am
this is so true about starting a new chapter in your life. i think my fear of what the world has to offer me as i leave this place this year is based off my fear of the unknown. i don't know what my plans are or my interests are for that matter for what i want to pursue after high school, but reading this i am re assured that though i may have to say goodbye to one of the easiest chapters of my life (at least thats what my parents tell me) i will be entering a world that has so much more to offer me than in a high school classroom.
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