When I looked up it's meaning this is what I found:
bittersweet
1. when something is good but there is a bad part about it
2. a mixture of two opposing feelings. One is good and the other, which is bad may be pleasurable but cause pain or discomfort at the same time.
3. A love-hate type situation, having equal parts that are good and bad.
Today was what I would call a bittersweet day. It was a day to say good-bye; and yet~ it was also a day to say hello to something new and exciting.
More specifically, today I said good-bye to some awesome people that I have loved working with over the past seven months. It is not that I won't ever see them again, but in my heart I know it will not be the same as seeing them everyday when I go into work. It is amazing how quickly people can form friendships when they share a similar passion for the people they are serving, even when they have distinctly different positions.
For those of you who don't already know, I am a school secretary.
It is hardly what I consider to be a 'job,' but if you must call it that I believe it to be the best job in the whole entire world. I am so blessed to have found something to fill my days that I love so much~
But I truly don't believe in good-byes. I believe that whole dealeo that people cross our paths and are in our lives for as long as we need them and vice versa. Kind of like one of my very favourite movies as a child, Pete's Dragon. Elliot stayed for as long as Pete needed him and then, at the end, he moved on to another boy that needed him more.
Life is funny and annoying like that.
Whenever you are happiest; working with amazing people that are funny and smart and just awesome to be around, it becomes time to move on.
And so it is bittersweet; as I am looking forward to the future (that I know will be full of new awesome people) I will also remember fondly those I am leaving behind. But in reality we are only a field and a phone call away so I refuse to say good-bye. Instead I will say "I will see you next year.." but next year seems so very far away.
I hope I can have my cake and eat it too, because that is my plan.
