I work as much as possible.
So im travelling but not really seeing anything at the moment or doing much at all…. theres a beautiful tropical island and lots to see in Australia.. i just need to hunker down for 5 more months and work to make the money to see some of it../
.. and student load is still as oppressive as ever..
I’ve realized that when you travel the world for extended periods of time.. like 3 years.. you lose a lot of friends. You make a lot , no doubt, but few stay in touch once you’ve moved on and the experience you shared fades into the background of life. Which is quite understandable.. I love the friends i’ve made in the moment and then we both went our own directions.. those are great. Unfortunately i’m starting to notice that friends back ‘home’ that ive had for years have moved on so far that they stop communicating as well.
I guess for me ‘home’ as a memory is still pretty close and fresh for me cause i’ve left it and never really gone back to change and put energy back into it. I have visited for a bit but never stayed to live, which makes a difference. I think my friends back home have been living their lives and have moved on in their own way, but my version of home is still the same as it was when i left.. and now theres a distance between the two homes. My home .. what i remember and how i left it, and my friends home which they no longer identify with me or my idea of how thigns are / used to be. I guess thats the part.. for me its how things are.. for them its how it used to be.
That being said.. i still have about 5 or 6 good friends that will be there when i get back and will be pumped to see me and we will always be friends.. but there’s about 10 - 15..20? more that might not reply to the email i send .. and if I do see them it will be once.. then after that maybe never agian. Who knows maybe ill be surprised.. but this was the first xmas and new years where i send out messages to people and never heard back from them.
Its no ones fault .. i dont think so. Its just a think that happens when you leave for a long time. Its a bit of a bummer. Atleast i have those 5 - 6 friends that will be there for me forever.. which is more than enough to feel like im lucky in life.
.. now if i could just figure girls out. But thats way to much to expect. ..
Peace..
Happy 2008..
Living in Perth.. working as a roofer. Guess who has the hottest job in Australia!?!? me. I guess it would be worse if i was working in Alice Springs in the centre but still hot. Right now its summer here too so 40 degrees is always close.
The surfing is good , hope it will get better when i get a chance to travel.
Must work to pay student loans!! I hope it all works out down here.