simpliicity:

(via writeoneleaf)

good-byes are hard. especially when you know you and that other person will be separated for a while after an exchange of those two words. it leaves a bitter feeling of insecurity and an unanswered question asking, when will there be a next time that we will meet again? 

luckily though, with you, i don’t get those bitter feelings in a “good-bye.” plenty of times i have met with you and left you to be separated, but never was i filled with bitter feelings of being departed. i may have felt a longing to stay with you a little longer, but i was never bitter. there was too much confidence in my heart for any bitterness. i was confident that we would meet again. regardless of the time or place, i know that the distance between us would only make our desire to see each other grow stronger.

so with every good-bye hug you send me off with, i am not bitter, but i am confident. even after you release me to watch me walk away from you, i don’t want you wondering when we will meet again because you should know by now, i will come back to you.  

and when that time comes, i know you will be there with welcoming arms to pull me back into that sweet embrace after our separation.

though good bye hugs are hard, it is my confidence of returning to our reunited embrace that keeps me from being bitter in our time apart.