Sunday Snippets #5-- Sometimes Goodbye Is The Only Way To Say Hello

"We call an unforgettable love like that memories."

Way back when I wore side pony tails and a pair of shiny black shoes to elementary school I remember a time when my then best friend and I found a rabbit. Oh how I loved rabbit, I named him Rabbit too. Rabbit was so tiny and perfectly cream in color. And one day Rabbit did what rabbits do; rabbit hopped. Rabbit hopped, and hopped, and hopped. Me and Chereen chased, and chased, and chased. But, we never caught rabbit again.

I didn’t cry like Chereen did because, my mother said that Rabbit hopped to freedom and that as long as I loved Rabbit I would have Rabbit. She said, “We call an unforgettable love like that, memories.” Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. Isn’t that crazy to think that we have a way of forever holding onto a piece of person, a place, an event, or an object just because we want to, just because we care? So now when memories of anyone or anything creep up on me I do not pout, I smile, because I have a piece of it, I have Rabbit.