2007-04-13 The Painful Way To The Top
One year ago, when I moved to this place in the middle of nowhere, I was not entirely sure if it was a wise decision. All my friends live at least 30 kilometers away, some as far as 150. Since I'm not the kind of person that makes a lot of friends in a short amount of time, I cling to the few I have. In fact, I made exactly one real friend in the year I lived here, and she has moved back to Korea last summer. So what was there to do except work? Well, as I might have mentioned, work has turned out to suck, so I am currently trying to find a job in New Zealand.
But all of a sudden I realized that I'm starting to like my life here (outside my job, that is). I'm a member of the nearby diving club and I started to go climbing with Sascha. He's a nice guy and I'm starting to regret that I cannot make friends here, because I want to get out! That's a weird feeling, I can tell you.
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Talking about climbing: I just came back from it. Never before have I been so much aware of my forearms. I may be a wimp, but gosh was that exhausting! Working your arms and back is a good compensation for sitting on your desk day in and day out. Looks like I've got to make up for one year of laziness.
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Here's what Kristine once wrote about the friendship thing:
I don't have a lot of friends (don't feel sorry for me, it's my nature) so I'm kind of scared of losing touch with the ones I do have.
Shorter, yet catchier. I'm envious.
2 comments:
It's shorter because I'm lazy. Hee!
It takes a lot of courage to move to place where you don't know anybody. I don't think I have the strength to do that.
Laziness in the right place is a clear sign of wisdom ;-)
Courage is a good thing to have, but in my case, ignorance is enough... I know I will always have a place to go back to as long as my parents are alive, so it was not a risky decision after all.
Also, "anybody" is a little exaggerated. Thomas, a good friend of mine and the advisor of my diploma thesis, works at the same daft company as I do (and he's lazy, too). So much for the courage ;-)
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