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Goodbye is not the end...

Remember that feeling some of us had when we are saying goodbye to our best friends after the end of every school year knowing that they will be transferring to another school in another town?  It felt wretched to let go and yet down the road, we remained in touch with them.  Though things are different and one another's circumstances may have changed but the friendship never ended, those tearful goodbyes were not the last. 

Or that painful break-up with your first ever true love or the end of any relation you held true in your life?  Those relations may have ended with your goodbyes but it changed you forever.  Every kind of goodbye in this ephemeral world leads to a transformation either on a personal basis or on a relationship basis, it leads to change.

There is only one final goodbye in this lifetime and it is death.  Yet even in death as we bade farewell to our loved ones to their last resting place, the love and memories we shared with them lives on within us.  The love did not end, the memories live on in our persons.

Goodbyes are never the end, each goodbye leads to a new beginning, a new start of something new but always transform us.  It ought not to end our existence or desire to live, audhubillah.

Goodbyes are transformative tool on the human soul.  Let each goodbye be for the good, let it be a reason in becoming a better human being.  After all, we are here only for one lifetime.  We are spiritual beings in temporary bodies, all goodbyes converges with the Creator, The Living and Eternal, the Alpha and the Omega, The Beginning and The End.  With Him, we begin and with Him is the only end.  In shaa Allah.  Alhamdulillah.