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i dropped my best friend off at the airport today. she is returning home to her country having spent 10 days with me in mine.
we tried our best to delay the inevitable 'leaving bit' but it has to happen and we ended up quickly saying goodbye outside the airport, rather than the ordeal right next to the departure gates.
airports must witness such scenes of emotional highs and lows, the worst probably being at the departure gates..........i avoid this area completely if possible, it almost makes it seem worse somehow, being surrounded by other morose 'leavees' waving goodbye to loved ones as they disappear around the corner........
am i alone in this? or do some of you also despair of the leaving scene and avoid the goodbye/crying area with grim determination....?
it still feels like shit that she has gone, but the speedy hug and run works better for me.
then you can cry all the way home in the relative privacy of your car.

― donna (donna), Friday, 27 September 2002 04:07 (twenty-three years ago)

by the way if anyone has anything kind to say please feel free to do so, i dont know you lot very well but i could sure use some happy-vibes tonight if there are any to spare.

― donna (donna), Friday, 27 September 2002 04:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I have cried too much in too many airports. I blame long-distance relationships. I thought you were going to advocate for a dedicated crying area where everyone could watch the planes go and sob in solidarity. Actually I probably would avoid that. Crying in the car on the way home is fine, but you have to get it together enough to be able to find change to get out of the parking lot.

The best option is to be the person on the plane, in whcih case the excitement of flying takes your mind off it.

This won't be cheering you up sorry. Maybe just remember what fun you did have, and look forward to getting mail from far off places makes you feel great, like you have a life that stretches across the whole world.

― isadora, Friday, 27 September 2002 04:16 (twenty-three years ago)

around a corner or into a tight little cubby hole is still disappearing. and i missed a flight once because of a 'romantic scene' with someone that we had agreed beforehand wasn't going to be made...but couldn't hold back from.

when i'm leaving to go on vacation though, train stations and airport terminals seem like some of the most hopeful and rejuvenating places in the world to me(the cliche of "infinite promise" fits here), where something amazing is possible in every next instant.

hope my rambling made sense, and that you feel better.

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 27 September 2002 04:21 (twenty-three years ago)

its very true that when you are the one embarking on travel the excitement helps with any sadness at leaving.
and thanks, im feeling ok i went on a mad cleaning-my-flat-frenzy.....i guess just sharing it helps hey.

― donna (donna), Friday, 27 September 2002 04:30 (twenty-three years ago)

As someone said: airports are one of the loneliest places on earth.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 27 September 2002 07:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the idea that all airports are one place (linked by the aeroplanes i guess)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 27 September 2002 07:31 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

A lady down the hall is crying in her office. It's a weird sound.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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