Good In Goodbye

"Because we expect each other to always be the people in that picture. But people change. People aren't pictures. And you can either take a new picture, or throw the old one away."

"As bad as it was, as bad as it hurt,
I thank God I didn’t get what I thought that I deserved.
Sometimes life leads you down a different road.
When you’re holding on to someone that you got to let go,
Someday you’ll see the reason why,
 There’s good in goodbye."
- Carrie Underwood

I've been giving this post a lot of thought. I don't want it to come off as a sad post, but yet I want it to be deep, and to trigger that place in your heart that says, "Wow.... that goodbye was really hard, but I no longer feel that pain when I look back. I'm proud of how far I've come, I've made it." Goodbyes are never literal. Carrie Underwood's song explains my reasoning exactly. Sometimes things in life are hard to say goodbye to... dreams, lives, family, friends, possessions, goals, lovers, jobs, hometowns, abilities... you name it, and someone has probably said goodbye to it.

It's not how life is planned. Because again, we don't plan our lives. I like to think we do, but in the end, I honestly believe it's up to God on how our life goes. Without him, I don't think we'd be anywhere that we are.. It's within these goodbyes that we find ourselves. It's within these goodbyes that we find our true strength, that God never reveals to us until these very moments. It's these goodbyes that get us through the day. They shape and mold us. They cause us to appreciate everything that lasts longer, more.

Life doesn't just come to us easily, and if it did, there would be no life. There would be no hi's, no goodbye's, no dreams, no lives, no friends, nothing. We'd be living for nothing. But because life comes with these goodbye's we have something to live for... we have something to hold onto every single day. And that thing we hold onto is that something good will always come our way no matter what. We hold on to that hope, that happiness, that belief, that knowledge, that someone, something, is out there, somewhere, waiting for us...

There is good in goodbye, there is.
I firmly believe that,
with all my heart.

Some goodbye's are forever, some aren't. It's what we decide to hold onto, that determines its life-span. In a way, I'm grateful for the goodbye's in my life. Some have been very hard, others have been very easy, others... kind of in the middle. But each one is unique, and has taught me something different about myself that I never knew. I've seen strength in myself that I never thought existed. Somehow these goodbye's are good for me. Even though I might not agree tomorrow, it's the truth. These goodbye's lead us to tomorrow, they lead us to victory, nothing but good comes from goodbye's.

Believe it.