Saying goodbye

We have never been taught how to say goodbye.  But I have been doing a lot of that lately.

With family and friends from oversea for our big day, I have to send them away one by one.  Goodbye to good friends and family always happen very sudden.  It is like stopping in mid sentence.

You are not sure where to start again, so you just nod, wave, and say your goodbyes.  Looking at their faces, you sudden realize that they came for you, but there is very little you can do to have them around forever.

Same with saying goodbye to my youth, my single life.  It just happened, no preparation, no warnings...