how do you say goodbye to someone who has already moved on ?

Philippines
May 23, 2011 6:22pm CST
It has been years since the girl left and he'd been finding ways to forget her, to get her out of his mind even for a minute. There wasn't a day or an hour in his waking moments when he didn't think of her. Funny how when someone is gone, we think of all the things we could have said or we could have done or questions we could have asked. Funny how he still want to know more about her even though he knew he will never be with her again. Funny how he would memorize some lines to say just in case she would call, but he knows she never will. He'll look up at the sky and hope that she is looking too. He'll turn on the radio and wonder if she's listening to the same song he's listening too. He tries to find comfort in those things because that's the only way he can be with her. He wonders if he ever cross her mind at all, knowing that she's moved on so quickly. Does she even think of him? Does she even wonder how he's doing after she left him broken-hearted? Does she even care? It's really hard to find closure when you have some questions left unanswered. He wants to know if she ever loved him at all. Or maybe he was just like all the rest, just a name added to her list of ex's...someone forgettable. He wants to know if she ever felt the pain, even just a little...when she decided to leave...He wants to know if she misses him...But he knew he will never know the answers. He will never know how she felt. Only one thing is certain here, when she walked out of his life, she never left his heart.
5 responses
• Philippines
24 May 11
I always believe in closures. No matter how the relationship turned out. Because it helps each of the individual who was part in the relationship to move on. Having to leave without saying goodbye is one painful thing. Acceptance always comes with the most difficult struggle because if one can't accept that it's really ever then it will prolong the pain. I hope the guy who's heartbroken will accept with an open heart that things will get better and that he has learned an important lesson from the relationship that he knows what love really is. =)
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
24 May 11
Hi laissezFaire, Being together once and now no more. Like two strangers meet, come closer, become friends and due to some issue they part from each other. Here the story also is something like this. If this had happened to me I would say - If we meet again say hello to each other and if not adieu my friend.
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
24 May 11
Well, I can totally relate to this post. I am the girl who was left by the guy who done what this girl done? He walked away without an explanation and without a single reason to be leaving. He took my heart and has never returned it. It is sad and hard to live with the fact that he never truly knew how much I loved him.
@ptower76 (1616)
• United States
24 May 11
Sounds like something right out of a Lamour novel. Do we really find the kind of love he is experiencing or is it infatuation or even obsession? I don't know if a one sided love of this sort can really remain so intense. I think one says goodbye to someone who has already moved on by moving on oneself. Doesn't seem like this guy has moved on.
• Philippines
24 May 11
like bags, I'm also wondering if it's just a poem/story or your real experience... well, if it's a story it's a really haunting one. If it's true in your life, then love her if you do, but try and love yourself too...