The female protagonist of Ayn Rand’s novel, Kira, says in a farewell note,
“If we live, and if we want to meet again.”
The words have remained with me ever since.
FAREWELLS
There are the long-awaited farewells where we wish we would never meet again.
There are others we lament then, but later realise that the separation makes no difference.
I recall the emotional farewells in school and college, and how the same people clashed during reunion meets or WhatsApp groups. We do grow in different directions when there are decades between us.
FAREWELL OR A HIATUS?
J. Krishnamurthy, a philosopher, says we never know a person as he or she is now. We only know his or her history.
By that logic, I will meet a new person after a gap, not my mental projection of the person I’ve known until now. I’d rather celebrate, hold dear all we had in common, and then, let it go.
CLOSURE
The lack of closure when we suddenly stop communicating hurts for some time. We would like to know why the other people did whatever they did. But it is a wound that heals with time.
The most toxic cases are where a negative person lives in your mind, despite the physical distance. We need liberation to be ourselves and live our everyday lives again.
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