Moving as often as we have means that your friends are everywhere. When you move from a location there are always people that you "take with you". I sometimes realize that in a given day I might hear from an old friend in Adelaide, Australia, another one in Geneva, Switzerland and yet another now living in Singapore. The part of this that makes me laugh is that the one in Oz will soon be heading back to France. The one in Geneva is on her way to India for a wedding of a friend made in Argentina and another is in Singapore having just returned to that location from England.
My favorite blogs are written by people that I know from past locations. Some of my favorites are based in Trinidad, Ireland, Siberia and India. Reading about everybody's new adventures bring them closer. We are all separated by vast distances yet when we end of back together it is as if we have never been apart.
I left Canada nearly 15 years ago after living there for 12 very happy years. When I return to Calgary every summer it is just like old times. When we left Calgary we left the city but not our connections there. When you are far away from your family, your friends become your new family. I left Los Angeles over 30 years ago and it is much the same. I have been lucky enough to reconnect with old high school friends there and it has been great. I so enjoy meeting new people but there is something about the people that know your history. They just "get" you!
From what I have observed, getting older with your friends is not a bad thing. Especially when you consider the alternative!! Most of the women I know look and feel better than ever. Lots of us are enjoying our 50's way more than our earlier years. Many of us have semi-empty nests and are spending our time and energy on ourselves and our partners. I find though when my "chicks" return to visit are the best times of all.
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I also had the fabulous opportunity to reconnect with some old high school friends over christmas and although it had been 15 years since we last saw each other, it was like it was yesterday and yes, they just 'get' me which isn't always the case when you are mixing with different nationalities. I agree that the friends we make in each posting are like family and when someone leaves it can be heartbreaking. I am still trying to get over losing my mate from here last May as things have just not been the same but I am doing my best to 'suck it up' ;-) S x
ReplyDeleteYou are so right, Sheridan. There's nothing like old - make that longterm LOL - friends. It's always an amazimg moment to chat with someone you haven't chatted with for months or even years and it's like time has stood still.
ReplyDeleteMartinis forever. :)