The Most Depressing Ride at WDW.

[DawnCt1]

There’s a trick to the “graceful exit.” It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.

-Ellen Goodman

Or another trick; Leave while you are still having fun!

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

Does that graceful exit involve thinking of the long 12 months of waiting ahead? That those long 12 months include about 6 months of cold, dark winter? That you haven't a clue how you are going to pay for the next trip when the 12 months finally pass?

I just made myself cry!

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb

 

[bigtinkfun]

Yes, that's a heartbreaking ride. I hate leaving...

Right now, I'm 48 days away from my next trip and it seems like forever!

 

[OK!]

They really should have separate entrances and exits, shouldn't they? That way we wouldn't have to see all those smiling faces. And they could put some tissues stops periodically through the airport for that sad part of the trip.

YES! And when I'm on the "happy" side of the equation, I try to avoid eye contact with the people who are obviously sad to be leaving, as I know that's gonna be me all too soon. Maybe I just need to MOVE to Orlando.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

... Maybe I just need to MOVE to Orlando.

I would do this tomorrow, and my company would let me transfer - but my wife will never move to Florida...

 

[OK!]

The nice thing for me is that I now work from home for a major, major corporation, and people who work in my department are actually located all over the country. My immediate boss is in Dallas, and another manager who's on her same level is somewhere in FL. So in theory I could easily move if I wanted to....it's just a matter of breaking through the inertia.

 

[Buckalew11]

YES! And when I'm on the "happy" side of the equation, I try to avoid eye contact with the people who are obviously sad to be leaving, as I know that's gonna be me all too soon. Maybe I just need to MOVE to Orlando.

I may do that someday. DH is actually convince right now that we'll be "snowbirds" at least. We'll wait for DD to get through college, I think, and then we have some big decisions to make for our future.

Honestly, the trick to even leaving the World is to make sure you have another trip in the works. Whether it is 6 months, 1 year, or 5---have one in the plans.
Before we bought DVC, I'd ask DH if we could come back again and I'd tell him that if he said "no" I wasn't leaving with him. He's been a good sport about my Disneyitis and has even caught the bug himself!
After we bought DVC, I KNEW I was going to go back so I worried less.

And, for all the people who love Disney and hate to leave it behind, my I recommend a great Disney book called Mousejunkies written by our very own DIS poster ChefBilly (Burke). It is one terrific book--esp. for Disney lovers. You will relate to so many things he talks about in this book. It is a slice of heaven!!

 

[GeorgeG]

That's how it used to be for me. Every leg of the trip down was a build to the excitement of walking into Epcot for the first time in a year and every leg of the trip back was a level of sadness. I think walking out of the park for the last time each visit was the toughest for me. I used to get my hand stamped on the way out - just in case!

At the airport, there's still some sense of the vacation - some Disney, some just Florida. Heading back to New York was always depressing.

I'd be lying if I said WDW wasn't at least one of the reasons we moved here. At least now we don't have to leave Florida when we leave WDW and can return any time. Life is good!

 

[Mish19]

We call that all the SAD people when we are arriving and we are the HAPPY people...

Going in it is actually my favorite ride as you are so filled with excitement and you know that anything can happen during your up-coming vacation..

Jill

That's what I think when I get there. There's the sad people in the security line...don't look directly at them. Then I'm the sad person in the line a week later and wonder if the happy people are pitying me!

 

[flip.daddy]

I really like the ears