I've Never Been Good With Goodbyes

Once again, I find myself thinking about a blog entry to make only to be overtaken by events...

When I got home from work I found I had an email from one of my online friends. I am certainly not going into any details on these pages, but basically, it said that we couldn't be online friends anymore. It's for the best of reasons, it really is - and while I will miss the person involved, all I want is for them to be happy. Zog knows they've had some rather unhappy times in their life and it's about time the cards came out with a good hand!!

On top of this, there's someone at my work who will be leaving tomorrow, and I will miss her as well in a way. We've only ever talked to each other on the shop floor, but she's quite nice to talk to, and she told me something today which again I'm not going to go into details about (even though she doesn't, to the best of my knowledge, read this) but it explains a lot about things. She will be a lot happier working where she'll be on Monday than she is at the moment in our organization, and I wish her all the best as well.

In both cases, I would like to think I will hear from these people again someday - the jury is still out on the former, but I would lay odds heavily against in the latter case. I have never been particularly good with saying goodbye, as anyone who has read this blog and remembers the situation with GroupieGirl a few months back will testify to. But sometimes this happens, sometimes it's for the best of reasons, and you just have to accept it. And say thanks for the good memories, which of course will still be around.

It has become customary here to end each entry with a particular track, and despite the date mentioned, today's choice was a big hit here in the summer of 1981. Coincidentally, that's about the time that I lost two of my best schoolfriends (one died in a tragic accident and the other suffered brain damage and was moved to a "special school") I may well blog about those two in more detail here someday.

As pretty much everyone on this planet (and no doubt several others) know by now, Michael Jackson died of a heart attack last night, and in tribute I decided to play a Genius playlist on my iPhone today using one of his songs as a starter track. This is the one I chose - and while the lyrics are probably not the most appropriate ones in my situation, the sentiment is there nonetheless.

MICHAEL JACKSON - ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE
(from the album "Forever", 1975)