Say goodbye when the relationship is over.How can you justify the loss of a relationship (including both irrepairable relationships and death)? How do you remember them? What did the friend stand for that you can fulfill? It is better to do this while they are alive, but afterwards it is still possible.
“Death doesn’t erase a relationship, it simply places it in a different context. Fostering our relationships to the dead gives the soul its nourishment of eternality, melancholy, mystery, and the kind of relatedness that is not literally of this world. Many, many stories of the soul tell that it is not fully at home in this life and that it is always trying to break the bonds of this world’s limitations.” Thomas Moore