So I must really have some hidden issues (or else I have just drank too much wine tonight). I just got another e-mail about a friend leaving and I am just sobbing! The funny part is that she is not a great friend or anything, just someone I always enjoy seeing around the Women’s Club, but I guess it was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. I can’t stop crying! The goodbyes just got to be one too many. I can't imagine being an Army brat and moving all the time, or even living in Brussels for ten years and saying goodbye to people every year.
It must be pretty obvious from my attachment issues that I went to the school with the same people from kindergarten through twelfth grade and then most of those people went on to college with me too. Another hard concept to grasp as an expat is that you will most likely never see these people again. You don't really just swing through Minnesota, Moscow, or Singapore. Maybe by the time I leave Brussels I will be used to all of this, but I somehow doubt it.
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Instead of feeling sad for loosing your friends and thinking you will never see them again you should be thinking "How cool we can now travel to Moscow AND see our friends."
After studying in Helsinki for 2.5 years it seemed every semester I was crying and saying goodbye forever, but over 6 years later I am still great friends with at least 20 of those I studied with. Now where ever we travel in the world it is always to one of their doorsteps and I have to say it is very cool!
So don't despair you are not loosing friends, but gaining cool vacations spots!
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