See you soon.

It looks like friendship is still the theme of the day.

Only in a different direction.

Yesterday I said goodbye - in a good way - to a good friend who I have met here in London.

I met her and another girl at a Halloween Party in the house of a friend of mine who knew her. All portuguese people. And that was almost three years ago.

Over the years, the three of us kept in touch and became good friends. And now that I'm thinking about it, if we would have another girl in the group we could have look like Sex and the City (LOL).

A few months ago, this friend started to feel like she was kinda lost in her Life and was not sure about what she wanted to do.

I guess we all go through those feelings every now and then, but not many of us actually act on it and try to find an answer.

She had a good job, something that she enjoyed doing, had a nice group of friends, traveled a lot, but that was not enough and she decided now was the time to make a change and find out if she wants something different or if she will just come back and keep doing her job.

So, she thought she needed to take some time off and for months have been planing her big trip to south America with another friend for a minimum of four months - she wants to go back to Portugal for Christmas. 

Well, after contextualization, I get to the point I wanted to talk about. I have realised how important this friend and the other one have become to me. Somehow, along the way, we built a nice strong friendship, where we could be ourselves, talk about everything and knew that we could count on the others at any time.

I guess I am surprised how I feel about them because, here in London, is not easy to make friends and as I am kinda of a quiet person, it is even more difficult. Yes, you do meet a lot of people, especially at work, but soon you realise that they are only colleagues, the 'friendship' ends when you leave the work place most of the times. 

With my experiences in making friends here, I know I started to put even more obstacles to people who may want to approach me and I thought I was doing the same with them, taking things slowly and not trusting too much. I see now, I was doing the opposite and as I said before, they became very close to my heart.

Yesterday it was hard to say goodbye to her, but the three of us will meet when she comes back to hear all of her adventures and in the meantime we have social media.

Life is really funny sometimes and quite tricky to understand or rationalise but it never stop to amaze me.

Good night and have a great week!