The Eternal Life Cycle

Don’t you find it funny how life has a way of repeating itself, especially when you have just sat back to breathe and think… I’m right where I want to be… Then ~Bam~ something will happen to send you spiraling again, almost as if to say, Naha don’t get too comfy.

For my whole life I have been the new kid, forever moving and starting at a new school and always having to make new friends just to say good-bye. And by the way as a kid it ain’t so easy making new friends, kids are mean I tell you and especially when you from a foreign country, they think you carrying some kind of catastrophic disease. Never the less you kind of get used to it after a while a make do with what you got. My philosophy was “If you like me great, and if you don’t, well I probably don’t like you.” Hey don’t get me wrong here I cannot complain, I have met some great people through these travels, some of whom I still keep in contact with and for that I am grateful!

So by the time I reached varsity (University or College) I had made the decision to go study and kinda stick around in the same place for a couple extra years to see what it was like, and I found myself surrounded by great people and I had an amazing support structure of friends. It stayed that way for a while, crazy Pap-suck Sundays, Girls nights consisting of pizza, popcorn and wine…lots of wine, and many other crazy adventures… some including boys. And it was at this point when I started to sit back and think, “yeah this is it, this is the life, great friends, great times, great memories, great stories to share amongst the grandchildren.”

Then it started happening slowly but surely the travel bugs hit, one at a time, eating away slowly at my new found circle of friends and sense of security.

Yes, yes I know what you thinking, in this age of technology no one is every really that far away. But Skype doesn’t replace that hug you need every now and again.

What it boils down to is your ‘Go To’ people, they are the ones sitting next to you at the police station saying, “shit that was fun”. So I figured as long as I have my ‘Go To’ girls I’ll be ok. But one by one they too have been swept away by promises of a better land. Two have already set sail and the last is looking for her escape route, which once again leaves me…

Trying to start all over again…