Yes, I know. I am leaving Berlin for just two months, so talking about painful, emotional goodbyes is surely an overkill. Still there have been some goodbyes in these days.
First of all I said goodbye to my last, big professional project. It was a demanding project, that required a lot of dedication and that costed me some belly and some white hairs. But it was also the occasion to get in touch with a lot of amazing people from all around Europe. There will be another project, there will be other amazing people to meet. But it will be something other from what I experienced in the last two years.
I said goodbye to my rugby team, that right now is the thing that I have in Berlin more close to a family. The team, the game, the mates will be there when I will come back. And that’s somehow relieving.
I said goodbye to good people that I met in this absurd place that is Berlin. People being there, everyone in their own way, when one need to feel a little less lonely in this place. And well, these kind of people are rare. Are the kind of people that you wish will stick around your life. But here? Here nothing last. And that’s not relieving at all.
I said goodbye to my previous life. I said goodbye to the dreams that I shared together with one of these person. I said goodbye because sometimes people change. And if you decide to embrace that change, it may come out that you have a long road ahead to become the person you want to be. And that it is a road that you have to undertake alone.
Goodbye is an imprecise word, that helps to give voice to an unclear feeling. Some of my goodbyes are actually a “farewell“. Some other are just a “see you soon“. Some others lays in a limbo. Will the travel define them? It’s not an expectation. But it’s definitely a hope.
Song of the post: Andrea Bocelli – Time to say Goodbye
I dedicate this song to myself.
Time to say goodbye.
Paesi che non ho mai
veduto e vissuto con te,
adesso si li vivrò.