What has been your hardest goodbye in life so far?
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When the one man who ever cared about me and didn’t want anything from me died. He was my hero and like the father I never knew. A man the helped a total stranger, a girl everyone treated like trash. When he died, part of me died too.
I still remember. He worked two jobs at night, and I was a waitress. He’d always come in between his jobs at the end of my shift. He’d get coffee and a sandwich and he’d walk me home. We met when he stopped some guys from harassing me. He also saved me from my abusive ex. This old Chinese man who never needed to care about some trailer trash white girl. I waited for him at the end of my shift like usual. He didn’t come. Three days I waited. Finally his grandson, who was actually older than me came by and told me he had died.
That last goodbye. I didn’t know it was our last. I doubt he ever knew how much he meant to me. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wish it had been me instead of him.
His funeral was full of people like me. Strangers he helped. People whose troubles he listened to. I approached his coffin and I bowed like I saw his family bow and I broke down sobbing until his grandchildren helped carry me out. It’s silly, but every day at the end of my shift I always buy a cup of coffee and a sandwich and give it to someone in need and say it’s a gift from my guardian Angel.
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Two times actually not sure which one was hardest...
First one was saying goodbye to my twin brother when he moved abroad. We were 23 when he left, and we were very, very close, a special kind of bond. I felt like part of me died, it took awhile to adjust.
Second one was my cat two years ago... I moved abroad and couldn't bring her, so I gave her to a nice family. But she escaped soon after and probably died. She was also big part of me, I still cry when I think of for her purrs on my chest. She was so sweet and calm, poor thing must've been so scared.
Saying goodbye to my first male love when I was 22, after we were together for 3 years. His parents had decided to move to another country and we both new this breakup was permanent. But none of us was ready to come out of the closet and his extremely homophobic father wasn't the best stimulus for that to happen. His mom new and supported us in any way she could, even doing everything possible to keep our secret from his father. And after being together for 3 years, it wasn't easy to say goodbye. Living after that was even harder cuz everywhere I went, I had memories with him in that place.
Maybe one of the reasons for that goodbye to be so hard was that it happened in person, whereas my first female love trading me for a rich guy happened over an SMS and that made things a lot easier, altough when I read her SMS it didn't feel easy at all and after that it took me 13 years to get her over.
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A girl I deeply loved. Put her on a train rather eerily similar to your picture except for the expression on her face. She needed help getting on that train to go live with the guy that she deeply loved. I was the only friend who would help her, so I did. It was crushing.
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Uhm my last ex... I wasn't ready to let this go and didn't saw it coming (him breaking up) and until now that parting away was the hardest for me to let go off.. if that even counts as a goodbye
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Of course, losing parents is the hardest. I lost my dad over 30 years ago and that was hard. And I lost my mom this year and that has been difficult.
But besides that, when a girlfriend who I was dating when I was 38 split up with me after she reconciled with an ex, that was very difficult. I didn't see that coming and I had no closure to the situation for a long time. I dodged a bullet though. She's been married 3 times since then.
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Thats a toss up between 2 things
Watching The love of my life walk, away from me, after being nothing but a good man to her.
Or having my best friend die in my arms doing everything i can to save him, And it wasant enough.
looked at me with horror in his eyes, begging for help, but their was nothing i can do but watch.
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Saying goodbye to my uncle when he was on his death bed. I couldn’t physically be there because I had just had major surgery but my phone put him on the phone so I could talk to him. He could hear me but he could no longer speak. That was extremely hard. I didn’t get to see him to say goodbye and didn’t get to hear his voice one last time..
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My aunt. She died and I had something important I wanted to tell her.
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Letting go of my longest relationship… Idgaf about him lmao. I just hate that all that time and love wasted and it didn't result in marriage and conception. Damn if only i could get those early 20s back
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The ideas and mindsets about everything I thought life would be. The goodbye to true friends I had that feel like a once in a lifetime thing. Before I would say unlucky, but lucky to have experienced it in the first half of my life. I hope I treat what they have given me well, and with respect. 🙏
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Saying see you later fo my daddy, he's gone cause the Lord decided to call him home after 5 years of battling cancer.
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2016 say goodbay to my coworker from my country, i had a boutiful job that i alwase question myself if i did the corect decision
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If this counts, one that I don't even remember. My grandfather. I don't remember the last time I spoke to or saw him.
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My aunt. She passed away from cancer two years ago.
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Saying goodbye to my grandma
That hit me hard when she died
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Losing my dad to cancer when I was a young boy.
Nothing else, as hard as other goodbyes have been, comes close.
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I visited my best friend's mother in palative care. She had cancer and was close to death. She was like a mom to me for a lot of years. It was the last time I saw her before she died. It was tough.
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Leaving my Fiancée back at her hometown until I come back for her because we are in a long distance relationship and I miss her.
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When I realized that my best friend's of 15 years were actually toxic and childish, and so I had to make the decision to either be stagnant with them or grow without them.
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Watching both parents die, even decades down the line it can still hurt deeply, and it can rear its head out of nowhere, a song on the radio or a phrase being spoken can bring it all back.
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My boss... but she sldecided to stay lol. I cried for none
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When my dad passed away the day after my birthday 💔😢😢😢
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My ex. It got very ugly because i caught them off guard wit it
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