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Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations

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“I have started to let sadnesses visit whenever they come, because I know that trying to keep them out will just cause them to find another, more aggressive way in. And when they visit, I try to sit with them, and understand the different nuances between these visitors, to take stock of them and note how each of them makes me feel. It helps me realize that they are not all the same—that sadness is not just one consistently gray, same-feeling blob—but that there are different kinds of sadnesses, some more common, some more rare. And when they visit, I have started to find some form of small excitement in the fact that these are the only chances I get to feel them and to observe their details firsthand.”

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“Home, then, I suppose, is simply in the ways you take a strange space and make it familiar. Sometimes that means putting your stuff in it. Sometimes that just means putting yourself in it and giving it time”

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“You have your entire life to worry about the rest of your life. Just get through today. Don't tell yourself "don't worry," but just... worry smaller.”

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“The more you grow as a person, the more homes you find, the more homes you make, the more homes you share. Each return to a home you once left becomes a realization that it takes up a smaller and smaller place among all the homes you now know. It’s only natural to feel like you’re being torn into pieces.”

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“So this nostalgia is, what, an echo of a happiness? Or a long-delayed one? Is it an outline of one, from trying to remember a happiness I knew I should have felt in the moment but that most likely wasn't really there? Or, maybe nostalgia is to feel happiness about something that is over because it is over. That in order to feel happy about it, it must be something that you can't go back to and affect, that you can't mess up from where you are now, but also, that you can't really feel at all.”

Happiness Nostalgia

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“See you later cannot be promised, but Goodbye, again reminds us that we've done this before. And after the last time, at least, we both came back.”

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“You can mourn your own changes, too. That you are no longer the person you used to be is, in my opinion, a good reason for mourning. It can be a cause for celebration, sometimes, too. But you can always give who you once were a send-off, a memorial, before you move on from them.”

Mourning Changes

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