Goodbyes

So how do you say goodbye to something, or someone you love, or loved so dearly? This is a question that comes up continuously throughout a persons life time and it's another question I ponder often. Just one more theme of the world I wanted to share and reflect upon.
When is enough really enough? How and when do you let go? And should it be an easy thing to do? I personally, am not good at goodbyes, or even goodnights. I believe people are put here on this earth to be cherished and no life should be lived without experiencing the endearing richness that is "love" and the comforting knowledge that you wont be left.
I am definitely a "hanger-on", to love, people, life. I hang on to clothes, experiences and even the little white fortunes out of the fortune cookie. Is 'hanging on' a weakness or a strength? Without the strength of me holding on, to someone or something, many things in my life would be different today. However, my inability to let go, has also lead me to walk head-on into disasters; both big and small.
For some people saying goodbye is easier. "Goodbye I am going home now, I will see you tomorrow", "Goodbye I'll see you next year" or "Goodbye forever". However, no matter the fashion in which these goodbyes are said, to a person like me, it is always received in the same way. As some strange form of disappointment or abandonment.
I believe somewhere deep inside that a "goodbye" is never really as final as the person saying it believes it to be. Goodbye is nearly like a bluff, a way of showing a "strength" or at least what society considers a strength. Like the potential to remove themselves somehow creates a wall between them and the person or thing they're leaving behind. Are they really leaving anything behind though? Or are they simply putting that part of themselves in a little box and storing it on a shelf because in that moment in time it seems like the easiest thing to do? Goodbyes make no sense to me and it is for this reason that I have spent so long of my short lived life trying to find some answer my head will be half happy with............................