Monday, October 5, 2009

Good-bye...Forever

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at work i saw somebody who wasn't there and i heard someone say my name but no one else heard him. i'll be pretty mad if my super power has finally surfaced and it's the ability to hear people's thoughts and i do nothing but whine about it every single week (how dare they pair my favorite character with the lame boring one. i don't mind my favorite being trapped in someone's head and surfacing here and there to say hi. but he should be trapped in mine or i could be stuck in his, whatever).

anywho, this reminded me of ghosts and death. people die, it's inevitable. just because there's nothing you can do to stop it, it doesn't mean one becomes indifferent to it.

the feeling of sadness does ease over time but some of it is replaced with guilt because it feels wrong to not hurt as much anymore. if you love someone shouldn't the pain of losing them grow the longer you are without them?

how sad if after one dies no one missed them. occasionally, accounts are closed because a customer has passed away. some aren't claimed them. it makes you wonder how their life got to a point where no one was around to pick up the pieces. No one was there to say good-bye.

I use to think the word “good-bye” was weird. I didn't get how leaving someone could be good (Sure if you didn't like somebody but one normally wouldn't say good-bye then). So I did some research on Dictionary.com. Oh boy was it educational.

“good-bye
–interjection
1. farewell ( a conventional expression used at parting).
-Noun
2. a farewell.
Also, goodbye.
Origin:
1565–75; contr. of God be with ye ”

Word History: No doubt more than one reader has wondered exactly how goodbye is derived from the phrase "God be with you." To understand this, it is helpful to see earlier forms of the expression, such as God be wy you, god b'w'y, godbwye, god buy' ye, and good-b'wy. The first word of the expression is now good and not God, for good replaced God by analogy with such expressions as good day, perhaps after people no longer had a clear idea of the original sense of the expression. A letter of 1573 written by Gabriel Harvey contains the first recorded use of goodbye: "To requite your gallonde [gallon] of godbwyes, I regive you a pottle of howdyes," recalling another contraction that is still used.

I ask God to have your back and you "regive" me a "pottle of howdyes"?. A gallon of God's protection for "hoydyes" which you've given before? Really? I am so going to go sylar on your butt...head, whatever.