I never say goodbye...

It is quite some time ago that I wrote a draft for a ”I never say goodbye...” post for my blog. But whatever I wrote seemed incomplete. I was not able to describe how the experience in Bangladesh had touched me and how much the people mean to me.

However I still feel it is worth trying… and thus I will post what I managed to write back then.

My time in Bangladesh is slowly coming to an end…. I would be fooling myself and everybody else if I was saying that I am not happy to finally be returning to Denmark. I have missed my home, my family and my friends for a long time now and I feel that everything will only be right when I am together with them again.

However, turning around the old saying; that whenever a door closes, another opens… then whenever a door opens, another closes….

Throughout my time here in Dhaka I have met so many great people. I have been so lucky to be part of an organization  (AIESEC)–which is more than a travel agency- which creates relations across borders…  Through this organization, I have in a very short time got to know so many local Bangladeshi students that other people have even noticed and commented on it. But I have not only met the local Bangladeshi students through this organization, , I have shared my room with a Japanese and a Dutch girl, I have lived with Chinese (Hong Kong), Australian, Italian, Indian and Austrian students. I have met up with Columbians and German interns. I have shared a huuuge experience with each of these people. In addition I have met a lot of passioned students at Grameen Bank who all will go back to their countries as well.  And as you know from my previous post, I have randomly met people who also contributed to a great extent to this experience…Without those people, my experience would not have been the same!

And now the experience is coming to an end… I have this strange feeling because I know most of these people will only belong to this exact time and place… most of them I will never see again!

I never like endings… It’s the same with a good book or movie… even when it has a happy ending –as I believe my experience in Dhaka will have and even when I’m already looking forward to the new beginning –then the fact that now will never be again is sad. And as there’s nothing I can do or actually want to do about then I rather jump straight to the next chapter… The last few days is self-torturing…

However, I remind myself that I never say goodbye, I say “see you later”… because even if most of the people only belong to here and now then it is up to myself –if I want to see some of them again, I can make sure to do so.

Now I have jumped to the new chapter which I will write a post about as soon as possible (who knows, maybe tonight). And I can only say, I miss all my dear friends and I even sort of miss Dhaka :)

See you all again, some day, my dear friends!