Goodbye India

Today, I'm leaving India. This country, these people, have captured a piece of my heart, and as I leave, and this piece remains, my heart is breaking. This song by Carrie Underwood is one that has played through my head often over the past few weeks as I've prepared to say goodbye, and although it is a song about a boy and a girl, it really resonates and captures what I am feeling as I leave this place and people who I have loved and who have loved me for the past six months.

So hard to see myself without you

I felt a piece of my heart break

But when you’re standing at a crossroad

There’s a choice you’ve gotta make

I guess it’s gonna have to hurt

I guess I’m gonna have to cry

And let go of some things I’ve loved

To get to the other side

I guess it’s gonna break me down

Like falling when you try to fly

It’s sad,

But sometimes moving on with the rest of your life

Starts with goodbye

I know there’s a blue horizon

Somewhere up ahead just waiting for me

But getting there means leaving things behind

Sometimes life’s so bittersweet

Time heals the wounds that you feel

Somehow…

But right now

I guess it’s gonna have to hurt

I guess I’m gonna have to cry

And let go of some things I’ve loved

To get to the other side

I guess it’s gonna break me down

It’s like falling when you try to fly

It’s sad,

But sometimes moving on with the rest of your life

Starts with goodbye