"I've got a bad feeling about this..." Han Solo's famous quote from Star Wars, which was revived to pleasingly self referential effect in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, is a saying familiar to men of a certain age who like to reach into a bag of popular culture quotes and pull out an appropriate phase when the situation requires it.
There is something comfortable about falling back into the arms of some carefully, cleverly chosen words of wisdom that have already been tried and tested.
These particular words came to mind as I seriously thought to myself I was about to bid farewell to my mortal coil as I stood in the rain shooting a scene on the edge of a cliff in Tintagel in Cornwall a few years ago. I as both producer and actor needed to be in a pivotal scene where I had to strangle the director who was also acting. We figured it could not get any more spectacular than being precariously perched on the lip of a sheer 30 meter drop onto jagged rocks below with the waves crashing against the cliff walls.
Thankfully our incredibly obliging DOP and Soundman agreed to try and get as close as possible to capture the event while attempting not to slip on the wet moss covered rocks and fall to their certain death, taking us with them in the process.
We got the shot, we did not die and we all have postponed our farewell for many years to come.
Spike Milligan famously wanted the phase, "I told you I was ill", carved on his tombstone as his farewell.
We at ditto would like to put a piece together for our event on May 16th which includes the farewells of everyone at ditto as well as the extended ditto family so please add a comment, add your farewell. Be brave!
...and to get the ball rolling here are a few...
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. ~Richard Bach
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ~Jean Paul Richter
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~Carol Sobieski
May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. ~Irish Blessing
You and I will meet again
When we're least expecting it
One day in some far off place
I will recognize your face
I won't say goodbye my friend
For you and I will meet again
~Tom Petty
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