36: Farewell

Over these few years of working life, many farewells happened, both being farewelled and farewelled others.

Being farewelled is somehow an indication of your position among your counterparts and your friendship with them. If nobody farewells you when you leave a firm, although may not feel unhappy, will at least feel uneasy. You may wonder why your beloved colleagues pay no attention to your resignation, or question yourself about your popularity, since your colleagues does not even organize pseudo-farewell for you.

Being farewelled is also a memorable experience. If you enjoyed your farewell night, it will not slip away from your mind easily. And it also suggested that you value the friendship or at least, the working relationship with your colleagues, and the good and difficult times working with them. Especially you have worked with some colleagues for many times or for some harsh engagements, you will also have deep memories of some specific shots and scenes.

Farewelling others is enjoyable in the sense that you can see how happy the resigning colleague is. It also marks an end to his hardship in the firm and a start of new working life. You will feel happy for him if you are friend with him. Farewelling others will also give you an opportunity to think over: should I remain in this firm? Are there any better alternatives elsewhere? You will also question that you have similar attributes with the colleague and why he can change to a good job but I cannot. The issue may be you have not tried. If you try, you may also get this or even better.

Another interesting purpose of farewell is to meet colleagues who have left before. Sometimes farewelling a colleague may also invite some other former colleagues to join. It provides more headcounts making the atmosphere more exciting and gives a channel to update the status of other resigned colleagues and have face-to-face chats.

Anyway, farewell itself, apart from its farewelling purpose, also enables people to maintain personal networks. Which plays a heavier roles? Doesn’t matter. Happy will do.