Don't freak out, I am not going anywhere. It has been one interesting month that had a lot of different good byes and I thought it might be worth sharing them.
If you read my last Blog, you read about one type of good bye, the mourning, grieving extreme loss good bye but I also said good bye to my classmates in the intern program at the hospital. This was a different type of good bye and one that I was not and still are not comfortable with. This good bye required me to think that once again a person or a group of people that I have become close to will be out of my life. Like I said, I don't handle this type of good bye well.
This group was the first group of strangers that I became close to in a long time. Through this process I learned that it requires a lot of ourselves in order to get a close relationship but it also takes a lot of ourselves to let that go and trust that all will be okay in the universe. I know that it may sound funny but this was a great revelation for me. Why? It was not my practice to show my "soft" side or put ANYTHING on my sleeve. I have learned that sometimes it is good to do that even when you know that someday you might have to say good bye to that person you trusted it is better to have had that relationship for a short time then not to have had it all. I know you have all heard that before but it is different when you actually experience the emotions involved in this experience.
My finial thoughts are this, don't limit potentially great experiences just because of the fear of that experience ending.
Thanks to Bob, Heather and Sue who were the Interns I had the pleasure of serving with. May our God bless all of you with success, health and love.
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