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.

The speaker voices a childlike but piercing wish for a permanent community of the people one loves, then immediately confronts the inevitability of change: people depart, relationships shift, and life is punctuated by farewells. The turn from “I hate good-byes” to “I need more hellos” reframes loss as a call to cultivate beginnings—new meetings, renewed affection, and repeated acts of welcome—rather than trying to freeze life in an unchanging present. In the spirit often associated with Schulz’s Peanuts, the line balances melancholy with resilience: it acknowledges separation as unavoidable while insisting that connection can be continually re-created through openness to new encounters.