The most significant things are the most difficult to convey. They are the things you are embarrassed of because words decrease your feelings—they reduce things that seem timeless in your thoughts to little more than living size when they are brought out. The most significant things are also the biggest problems, for they affect many people or involve questions of principle. You can't say everything about them so you have to pick and choose among many possibilities. The hard thing about saying goodbye is not just losing a friend but also knowing why you should go. It is as if someone has taken away your ticket home and you have no idea how long it will be before you see your family again. Even when there is a reason, like a job interview, you feel sad because there is nothing special about going anywhere on a weekday morning. Still, you put on your shoes and leave the house with as much indifference as if you were going to the supermarket. In fact, saying goodbye is not easy even when there is a reason. Life is made up of small moments that add up to make a big one. You don't notice these moments unless they are gone, and they are gone forever once you say goodbye. People think that if something isn't worth saying then it shouldn't be said at all. But sometimes the best things are left unsaid because without saying them there's no way to move on.