How hard is to say goodbye to friends ?

I can’t even say goodbye from one day to the next. I hate goodbyes.

I can’t answer this question because i’m filling up just thinking about it…...blows into hankie.

Three of my friends are dead now.Two from suicide.
That is the worst feeling ever.
There is not much more I can add to that except to say appreciate your loved ones while they are still here :)

I’m horrible at goodbyes…

I hate losing people. It has to be one of the worst feelings there is. Appreciating them fully and truly enjoying being in their company when they’re around is important. Better to have had valuable friendships than not I guess.

We take life for granted until it’s taken away from the ones we love. Then we realize how important it is to appreciate our lives and everyone in them.

Don’t take anything for granted, you never know when you’re going to lose it.

It can range anywhere from sad to heart-breaking. In the past two weeks, two old friends that I lost touch with almost 30 years ago have sent a Facebook Friend request. It has been nice to find out how their lives have turned out through an exchange of messages. With the internet, it is much easier to track down old friends and rekindle the friendship, even if it ended badly long ago.

A loss due to death is a whole different matter, especially if it is sudden and unexpected. Some people believe that they will one day be reunited with those that they care about. Whether it turns out to be true or not, the person left on Earth is now lacking a friendship that was dear to them.

What took me a long time to learn is that these wonderful people can still live on in our words and actions.

Well, for me, it is not hard at all. I have had to say goodbyes to lots of friends and relatives and have never cried. I swear I must be the only person (okay,girl) to not be crying when saying goodbye when everyone around me is. I feel a bit strange then, as I think most People would see that as coldheartedness but it’s not. I know for a fact that I do not want to say goodbye, yet I am unable to shed a tear. It’s really strange but, thats how it is.

I find it easy to say goodbye in a casual way, knowing you will see the other person again, but as for saying goodbye permanently, I have never done it, not even with those now dead.

Hard. I’ve done it two times, once when I left my grandfather knowing he was going to be dead in just a few weeks and the other time when I left my homestate and said goodbye to an ex bf who had bee more wonderful to me than I had been to him. Something inside me told me I wouldn’t see them again and as much as I tried to ignore it, the feeling pestered enough where I thought sometimes there was ringing in my ears and I’d have insomnia.

I fumble most of my big goodbyes. I hate them with a passion! I would rather just turn and leave. :(

Just horrible. I don’t want to think about having to say goodbye to anyone I love now, either because they have moved away or passed away.

I remember being in a queue at an airport waiting to check in and looking back at my father and I could see in his eyes and he probably in mine that we both knew we would never see each other again. Opps pass the tissues…......

6 months ago, my mate Will died in a house fire and I still feel like I haven’t said good bye. At the funneral and at a memory get-together we all said our goodbyes but I still feel like I need to say a proper goodbye…

Thanks for replies.