Goodbyes are always hard. The unsaid goodbyes. The goodbyes until you see each other again. The goodbyes that seem far away into the future but arrive sooner than ever. The worst goodbyes are the ones you don't see coming, the ones decided for you, not by you. The goodbyes that catch you off guard, because they happen on the most unexpected days, in the most unfair ways. Everyone says goodbyes are the end of a chapter, and only when a chapter ends does another one begin. But some goodbyes come with a full stop that never reopens, an end that never begins again. And those are the goodbyes that shake your world - they remind you what matters and what doesn't. They remind you to never cut a call on a hurtful note. They remind you to say I miss you when you feel it. They remind you to build, not burn bridges. They remind you to check in on loved ones just because. They remind you to live in the now, to value time because it's not something everyone has a lot of. For some, goodbyes still the clock. They initiate an end of time itself - for themselves and everyone they love.