catching up

it feels soooooo good to catch up sometimes :)

tonight i had the chance to talk to one of my best friends of all time for over an hour on skype - for free! i love technology :) a lot can happen in a month, as it turns out.

i also realized that though what i learned in brazil is still very true - a place is nothing without its people - the converse is also true: if you have the people, even if you're not in the same place, it won't matter. i've known this particular friend for over 10 years. we went to different colleges after high school, and though we didn't get to see each other all the time, it hasn't mattered at all in terms of our friendship. i have a few other friends like this too, and it always feels really really good to catch up :)

before i even had thought about coming to chile, the prospect of moving ANYWHERE and starting over scared me a lot. you just get so comfortable, you know? and then you start to take for granted the people that know you best, just because they always have. i love making new friends, but it takes a conversation like the one i had last night to make you realize how long it takes to build a friendship like that - i've already been so lucky as to make some cool friends here and that we all get along as well as we do, considering that we'll be living and working together for an entire year. but there are just some parts of yourself you don't let go that fast, i guess, whether you mean to or not - and there are also some parts of yourself that some people may never know because it was you when you were 10 or when you were 16. they can't help that, of course :) anyway, to sum it all up, it seems that i'm in a good place in terms of friends right now, no matter where we all are in the world or where we're all from in the world :)

the same is also true for relationships, it seems. still more in love than ever, even thousands of miles away :)

damn, i've been lucky. now if only i could find a good way to just bring all of us together...