I miss friends who have moved to different cities and other parts of the world. It times when you are organising a party that this becomes more apparent than usual. During usual times, the pace of life that I lead (life-in-speed-search mode) leaves little time to even think of much else. I work, come home and then I have enough energy only to spend a little time with N and N.

I try and make it a point to connect with the larger family and friends on weekends on the phone, but somehow, it isn't the same thing as times spent together earlier. But I also feel aware that to actually get together with these people in most instances is not the answer to what I miss. They and I are different people. Being apart makes people grow differently. You process experiences differently than when those same experiences happen if you are in closer contact with friends and get to talk about these experiences as they happen.

Even so, I feel like a vital bit somewhere to the experience of living on planet Earth and of being a part of a community gets lost out.

Somewhere in the back of my mind, not too deep in my consciousness is a wish that someday, we could all buy a place on a hill somewhere and live near each other. And handle the rest of the world from there.