Once, when Pope Francis was meeting with a group of students whose school-year was coming to a close, a young teen named Marta admitted to the Pope that she was afraid to be leaving middle school and her long-time friends and to move on to high school.

She asked the Pope, “Why do I have to change everything? Why does growing up make me so afraid?”

Pope Francis replied with some beautiful insight. “Life is a constant ‘good morning’ and ‘farewell’,” he said, noting that sometimes the farewells are forever.