life - equation of passing phases - learning goodbyes

how do i start.. yet another time of reflection, emotional transition?

"all around us, things are changing, seasons come and seasons go...
very few things last forever, but deep within our hearts we know..."

what's forever? what's transient?

in life, as a kid, growing up and becoming an adult, we have our stories to share, to tell, or to keep to ourselves.. the joy, the sorrows, the love, and the hurt, the hope, the disappointment... and the whatevers...

mostly, we couldn't anticipate what awaited us before they happened.. and when they did, sometimes we reacted with a "dammit! i could have, or should have!!" whatever it is.. nothing mattered anymore since time never waited to tell us we need to look ahead and move on with what we still have that's "yet to come" and what we can still strive for.. it's the "we got to move on" signal...

through all these learning, when we fell and picked up ourselves to move on... what do we carry with us? throwing away people and episodes "not worth" keeping.. and sifting out the important pieces that mattered? some people? or some memories?

it wasn't very long a time.. but enough to wish there was more time, and enough to have started to share laughter and feel for new friends... most of all, enough to feel sad and be affected that things have changed...

well, perhaps from time to time we learn to let go better, but at the same time, i feel that having learnt to let go is more like learning to say goodbyes... and i really dislike how goodbyes seem to become more "normal" as we experience more phases in lives...

but again.. maybe, goodbyes may be one of the most beautiful ways to wrap up beautiful stories in our lives so that we can pack them up into a memory closet with a tag that says "worth keeping" =)