goodbyes

It's always not easy saying goodbyes.
Even though it was a short 3.5 month stint at Achieve, there was still a sense of loss when I left Temasek Tower after my exit interview with Susan.

Loss of what? I dunno.
Possible close friendships? Possible breakthroughs in my growth as a marketer?
Possible this, possible that.
I guess that's where the term "opportunity cost" comes from.

Taking a choice of action means a loss of something which could have been if that choice of action were not taken.

There were some of the usual "Goodbye, wish you all the best!" and the "Take care, keep in touch!" and the "I'll miss you alot definitely!"

On the way home, I thought to myself, how much of these are true? When one says keep in touch, do you really mean it? Miss me definitely? Hmm mm...hahaa..
Not condemning anyone here. I am guilty of dishing out such empty statements as well.

I've uttered "keep in touch" umpteen times to different people....and yet only kept true to my word for a handful of those chaps. And I am pretty sure many of us are guilty of this.
Sort of like these phrases have become a standard response.. haha..a courtesy auto-reply spweing forth when confronted with a goodbye?

Eric gave me a bible. A Precious Moments bible..light blue plastic cover...Quite sweet...
I opened his gift when I was on the train home..And I felt so touched the moment I laid my eyes on it. I thought it was such a nice gesture on his part. He also compiled some pictures for me and burnt them into a CD. haha...Kudos to him for such efforts...=)

This morning when I checked my email, I realised he dropped me a note to my personal email.
A super long email chronicling events from the 1st time we met till my last day in the same office.

LOL. I thought I was emo. So I try not to show my emo side to omuch in front of others...I guess I only show the emo side in here and mostly to those who are close to me..
For him, a guy, to write such a long email...I was quite pleasantly surprised...

He said I was real. That I didn't bother being too much of who I wan't. He didn't say that a good or bad thing though. Just said that he liked people who are real and sincere.
And then he gave a list of chapters that I could start reading through from the Bible.. haha lol.

It's funny when sometimes a goodbye comes too suddenly.

Of course, not all goodbyes are closures. Some represent beginnings of new chapters...and of better things to come.

Next Monday. New place again. New adjustments again. New routine again.
New friends to make. New things to learn. New politics to handle. New bosses to suss out.

Jiayou to me...Jiayou to my new career path...
And may some of these new-found friendships continue to grow to stronger ties in the future...