The hardest kind of separation is when their faces fade from your reality, but their details remain etched in your memory. We don't cry for their departure, but for the selves that left with them and never returned. Separation is walking a path you once shared with someone, only to discover it's longer than it was. On the "slow death" of feelings: "Farewell is the silent killer that leaves no trace of the crime but a broken heart." Separation isn't when someone travels far away, but when you sit beside them and feel that between you lie cities of silence. In separation, we don't say goodbye to people, but rather to a part of our dreams that will never come true.