About a year ago I wrote a blog post called “Goodbye’s Suck!”
If you have been blessed with a life that has had very few goodbyes, your luck
abounds. My life has been riddled with goodbyes – casualties of TCK life. Today
my organization says goodbye to a very dear friend and I am reminded that
indeed goodbyes suck.
Marcie babysat me before my family went to Guatemala. In
fact, she might have been a part of my family’s life before I was. She has
worked at OC for 10 years and is leaving to move closer to family in the
Northwest. She doesn’t leave town until later this month but today is one of
the “official” goodbye days.
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| This is Kassen (my sister) and Marcie in India. |
For the last two years of working the U.S. office Marcie has
been my sanity. She is calm, collected and rational, which is a nice juxtaposition
to my irrational and often frustrated temperament. We also take online quizzes
like their going out of style – a welcomed laugh in a stressful work week. Reality
TV also happens to be our kryptonite. The Voice just won’t be the same without
her.
In general I prefer to be the one who leaves verses the one
who stays. I’m not often put in this position. I leave, people don’t leave me.
Recently a lot of people have been leaving. They move on, I’m here.
No doubt in my life I’ll be the one leaving once again but for
now I am trying to find contentment in being the one who stays. It’s a box I
don’t quite know how to fit into. It fits awkwardly and itches but it’s where I’m
meant to be.
Goodbyes suck, but hellos are great. I pray for new hellos
in Marcie’s life as she returns home. (Thank the Lord for email, social media
and phones so we can keep in touch!)
I’m hoping for new hellos in my life, even if they will
eventually lead to new goodbyes. I hope I find people, like Marcie, who are worth
the risk.
