SAYING GOOD-BYE.
This concept, for a very particular reason, has been in my mind for a while now. How do you emotionally say goodbye to someone whom you have not seen but once in 56 years? We human beings, suffer from a distancing malady ( no, not the famous virus induced “social distancing” so in vogue now ) which will --probably as an exercise in self-defense and survival— slowly erode some of the emotional ties and memories which we formed over the early years of our life, after we are suddenly and totally distanced from these. This erosion of older memories opens the way for us to manage and do our best to live through the encroaching threats of daily life and helps handle moments of potential trauma. Yes, we are human. Trite excuse but true, nonetheless. With all the failures, successes, foibles and -why not say it?- the downright stupid behavior at which we excel more often than we’d like to acknowledge. And this last inherent malady takes several forms, none very flattering when ...