We are social creatures. We most of the time enjoy the company of others, and when not enjoying others' company we still remain social, in engaging with ourselves.
I understand the argument is kind of circular and as such the phrase a tautology, but I believe it to be true based on my experience, so to me it's closer to an axiom.
So what happens when we are forced to walk against our nature? It's time for a farewell.
It could be to a family member, a dear friend, a favorite team, an unrequited love or even crush, a person we exchanged lots of smiles in a small amount of time, a perfect stranger at the airport with whom we shared one too many gazes, or ourselves when it's time to leave our-world. The farewell is almost always bitter-sweet, and sometimes addictive.
The recent trip to Paris lent itself to most kinds of farewell to me.
In my search for a video clip able to convey the complicated parting emotions, I settled with an amalgamation of scenes from Jean Grey's Phoenix Saga (X-Men Animated Series). In the video, one can find two spoken farewells, as well as an implied one, which I will leave as an exercise to the astute viewer to discover. If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, then the following video should be worth close to 12,905,000 words.
Farewell!
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. [Emily Dickinson]
1 comment:
Very deep goose... and, i know this scene all too well... it's definately full of a lot of heart felt emotion. Well, sounds like u had a great time in Paris, just be happy that it happened.
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