Hello, Hello

Dear Hello,

Hello! Can we please rekindle our long-lost friendship?

I’ve been spending entirely too much time with your counterpart, goodbye. I know, I know, you can’t have one without the other. Okay. I get that.

Which is why I tried not to sigh too loudly when I had to say goodbye to my roommates, to my college, to everything. Not to mention THE goodbye which people take extreme measures to avoid talking about in my presence {maybe they think that if they don’t say anything I’ll forget what happened?}.

But I’m really really really done with goodbye. I even said goodbye to my history of music assignment as I submitted it today {which is saying something, since I put off saying goodbye to that blasted essay for at least four weeks}.

And I am extremely ready to say goodbye to the pair of pierced lip, college guys whom I had the (dis)pleasure of talking to at the grocery store. Although they did have the extraordinary linguistic gift of making conversation entirely out of four-letter explicit words.

So much talent in so skinny jeans.

So I gave goodbye a swift kiss on the cheek to show my appreciation for his efforts, and then escorted him out. And I would please like to escort you in.

I’m ready to say hello to sunshine again!

And new running and workout schedules!

And more friends!

And dates!

And a million other things.

And so, my dear hello, I look forward to your imminent arrival.

Cordially yours,

~B

P.S. I even listened to a faster, remade version of Hello Goodbye by the Beatles on my run today, in a half-hearted attempt to speed your arrival. The only thing that happened was the slimy death of a small bug that flew into my mouth… this doesn’t mean anything, right? Right??