The Vitamin C, in their popular song ‘Graduation (Friends Forever)’, sang “I keep thinking times will never change, keep on thinking things will always be the same..”. This is what we exactly want in our lives; everything to be just the same with no changes. However, no sooner the next line of the song says, “But when we leave this year we won’t be coming back. No more hanging out cause we’re on a different track”. This is the fact of life too. We’ll all fall in a different track someday wishing one another ‘farewell’.

Departures or farewells are hard times with mix emotions – a melancholic feeling that someone is leaving us but on the other hand, a feeling of happiness that someone is seeking out something new in life. But we can always make them memorable with farewell gifts that are sure to have a lasting impact on the giver and the recipient.

Farewell gifts are about two things. Firstly, it is about wishing the departing person good luck and the second is to thank the person for what he or she has been to you all these years or time that you spent together. Besides, logically the word farewell also means ‘fare well’, which is to wish good luck. Therefore, it is important that if someone is leaving for a new destination or place to seek out fortune, we wish them fare-well and add a touch to the wish with these gifts.

Interestingly, farewell gifts can range from anything of a collection of photos to a collection of music CDs. It can also be a scrapbook signed by all family members or friends with wishers or a road map. You can also give a simple collection of farewell and good luck wishes from well wishers to a simple prayer book.

Besides these, there are also a great number of gifts for farewell available in the market or online that you can either buy them on the spot or order them online. They come in variety and a range of price which are very tempting.

However, what matters at the end of the day is that these gifts have a meaning behind them and that they have a lasting impact on the recipient. It is also important that it conveys your message of support and encouragement too, the very reason behind farewell gifts.