Essays: Saying goodbye 18 Articles

by Nicholas Sabori

Untitled Heavenly Father, Speak peace to stress stretched hearts today. There are only questions dripping with pain, questions like why, how and what if. Begin the healing process now, we pray. We long for your strengt...read more

by Kaytlyn Mulinix

MAY THIRD On May 3rd, 2007, I grew up. It had been the same as the day before. I was late for school, I was stressing about my speech final, worried about the last issue of the X-change and trying to remember everythin...read more

by Lisa McGee

I had forgotten to call my friend Sherrie back. She'd left a message asking for me to return the call as soon as I could, but I was busy with visiting in-laws. Finally, I had a minute, while fixing dinner to fit in a cal...read more

by Gail Kismet

His name is Rob. It's such a simple name, I know. He could easily be Bob, Bobby, Robert or Robby. But he's simply Rob. He's a simple guy with a simple frame of mind. His biggest goal in life is to be a good man. It's ...read more

by Brandy Gates

Randy and I were childhood sweethearts. He was my best friend, my lover, and the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with until his tragic death on July 7, 1997. I heard a knock on my door, it was 3 am, wandering wh...read more

by Lynn Mcmonigal

BURNING LOVE In 2004, my family said one of the most amazingly difficult goodbyes we have shared together. The farm house on McCrone Roadthe house where my grandmother was raised, the house where my father and uncle we...read more

by December

'Call me when you think of me.' This is how I say goodbye to people whom I have loved so dearly and who I do not allow myself to keep in touch with. Three people have heard this sentence with my tears. I miss them. But...read more

by Christina Rumbaugh

Music is my life. It was my life. A year ago, you wouldn't have recognized me if I didn't have my iPod hanging out of my pocket. A year ago, a lot of things were different. But on November 28, 2007, I had a problem. As I w...read more

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by Kelly Donovan

My Grandmother did not have the easiest of lives. She was the wife of an alcoholic, suffered a severe bout of tuberculosis, and a fall in front of a NYC subway left her somewhat scarred physically but far more emotionally...read more

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by Marsha Smith

How do you say goodbye? It's been fun; glad to have known you and I wish you all the best. Somehow I know that no- goodbye can say what needs to be said, how can just a few words tell what a heart feels? Did we reall...read more

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by Nouri Arif

His name was Cookie. Or, Cookie became his name by default when my wife and me began to feed and water him daily. He was young, beautifully marked and seemingly healthy. He was a very friendly little soul that clearly h...read more

by Ashley Moreno

I didn't wave. I didn't say the words 'I love you, goodbye'. She was just......gone. My mother entered my room very quietly that day. She sat on the edge of my twin bed and looked straight into my eyes. Her words hit me li...read more

by Tonia Sharp

It was October 1999. My husband and I were driving down the road on our way home from his parent's house. We received a call from my dad. He asked to speak to my husband. Baffled that my father wanted to speak to my husban...read more

by Tarnii

Saying goodbye, I believe that in my own special way I do this very act, I value it's meaning every day. I shed the old and I'm renewed with the new as the day comes to a close but when it comes to letting go, this can be ...read more

by Ruth Suli Urman

Goodbye I'm barely surviving. My intestines pop and growl, as if they want to speak to me. "Tell me that you love me," they say. "Tell me that you'll take care of me, first." It's a difficult time: after thirt...read more

by sherry marie

Saying goodbye to a loved one is the hardest thing a person can do.If it's a death or just a parting of ways we still have all the memories that will tie us to this person for the rest of our lives, good or bad.Goodbye is ...read more

by Samuel Matthew

Our sun has a flamboyant way of saying goodbye. In the final leg of her extraterrestrial journey she is a true specimen of majestic splendor and absolute magnificence. Indeed, what is lost in intensity is gained in soft ...read more

by Divya Chhabra

suddenly it seemed like a part of me would never be the same again..like i would never smile freely ..i would never look up to a new day with that confidence..why are good byes so painful? and honestly why had we never tal...read more