“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”

Goodbye. It's one word with a sad meaning. It means that we're growing up and moving on. Peter Pan knows that when you say goodbye you'll forget about him, you'll forget about Neverland and all the adventures that you had when you were a child.
I think though, everyone at some point in their lives do need to say goodbye to either something or someone. You know when someone is dying and they say "Don't say goodbye? Don't forget?" There's truth to that saying because more often then not when we say goodbye, our minds except that they are really TRUELY gone and you forget those happy memories that you had with someone, may it be a family member who passed or a friend who moved away, but when you admit to yourself that they are gone, then they really are.
I can tell from experience that when you harbor a memory or something someone gave you that the memory is stronger then if you had nothing. I have a parrot from the grandmother and I still can remember her giving this old beanie baby parrot and I knew that she was dying even when she was giving me the bird. I was probably around eight when she passed away. I still hold onto memories and It hurts to go to my grandparents home, my grandfather remarried and he's changed almost everything in the house, the kitchen where she cooked is different, the living room where she lived is so much different, the bedrooms upstairs have changed; most of her trinkets have gone to her children. The only thing that remains untouched is the sitting room at the front of the house, still this strange yellow color, the furniture exactly the same the pictures haven't been changed since 2008, the piano is still in the corner the room, it hasn't been played for a long time. It however is my favorite room in the whole home. I feel strange when I go to my grandfathers, like I'm walking on broken glass, like the sitting room has a spell on it, it won't ever age as long as no one mentions my grandmother. How I want to though, how I wish I could just have memories about her, but that however would mean that I've excepted that she really is gone. I don't want to say goodbye, because to me she's not really gone.
So lets take a page from Peter's book and say see you later, or I'll miss you, but never Goodbye, because goodbye means going away.

-Birdy

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”