Week of Goodbye

This week and last have been a week of saying goodbye at work, which is something I don’t do well. It is just a bit uncomfortable for me as I don’t usually know what to say and find it easier to quietly do my thing and head out once I’m done. So I hope I don’t piss anybody off but I might have already.

It has been made harder for me as I could not have expected a better response from people at work on my decision. I knew friends would be supportive, and I thought my family would be too, but work I was not quite sure what to expect. If everybody was mad at me it would be pretty easy for me to make the jump and head out but it has been quite the opposite. I have been taken a bit back by how much support everybody has shown to me in the past few weeks. I’ve been treated to lunch multiple times now and there have been a few gifts that have taken me quite by surprise. I guess I don’t expect this or really think of what I am doing as deserving of it, so I am not always quite sure how to respond. There is a large envelope of personal notes handed to me at lunch last week that I’ve decided I am not going to read until I get on the plane.

The generosity of my friends and co-workers is making it harder for me to leave but I guess this is the first thing I am learning from this experience. You don’t always appreciate the people around you until you won’t have them anymore.