Say Hallo - Wave Goodbye
In the last 12 days I have met 54 fellow travellers and 5 guides. I guess I had at least one decent conversation with about half that number, clicked and got on with about half of them, and made good friends with about half of them. We saw the sights together, eat together, drank together, slept together (no, not like that) and shared loads of great times and memories. I doubt I'll see any of them again in my life.
Most people I've met on travels are predisposed towards being sociable and, so long as any language barrier is surmountable, it's quite easy to fall into easy going friendships. The shield against the sword of Damocles is the swapping of email addresses as you say farewell to your new friends. It may just be me, but what follows tends to be receipt of sporadic group emails detailing the latest travelling escapades of whoever, that then tail off into eventual silence. So now I pretty much only divulge my email to real or potential good friends. If you're reading this, you're obviously on the A list by the way.
It's great meeting people, sad saying goodbye (to some anyway) but hey, that's life folks.
Most people I've met on travels are predisposed towards being sociable and, so long as any language barrier is surmountable, it's quite easy to fall into easy going friendships. The shield against the sword of Damocles is the swapping of email addresses as you say farewell to your new friends. It may just be me, but what follows tends to be receipt of sporadic group emails detailing the latest travelling escapades of whoever, that then tail off into eventual silence. So now I pretty much only divulge my email to real or potential good friends. If you're reading this, you're obviously on the A list by the way.
It's great meeting people, sad saying goodbye (to some anyway) but hey, that's life folks.
posted by Johnnie at Wednesday, March 22, 2006
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