One of my best friends left for college a couple days ago and I remembered how difficult saying goodbye is. You would think that leaving home and separating from my people would get easier each semester, but it only gets harder. Every break I spend at home is easy- I feel at peace with the people who know me best. Although I love where I go to school and the friends I have there, there’s truly nothing like home. In the spirit of saying “see you soon” and “I’ll miss you”, I crafted a 10 step guide to saying goodbye.
- Share lots of hugs
- Share lots of tears (wear waterproof mascara or risk looking like a zombie!)
- Plan times to FaceTime and Skype each other
- Take pictures before separating
- Share final thoughts and sweet words
- Continue hugging
- Say you won’t cry anymore because you’ll see each other in four months
- Cry anyway
- Listen to Adele’s ’25’ album on shuffle
- Repeat the process with each person
