Saying goodbye

I find saying goodbye one of the hardest things to do.

How do you find the words to express everything you feel for that person, I'm always left wanting when it comes to some eloquent speech that captures the depth of my feelings.

Yesterday, I said goodbye to a friend from work, someone that had made the time spent in the office, fun and left a smile on my face, the few times we worked together.

So many people have left lately, and I have not had the chance to say goodbye in person, but I realise that the people didn't always want that emotional farewell and so timed the email saying goodbye with their departure from the office.  In respecting their feelings and wishes I left, what I feel is an inadequite facebook messages and email.  

I am not sure that time will make farewells any easier, I think they should be hard, pull at our very souls that we have connected with another human being and now that relationship will change, for better or worse, only time will tell.