WE SHIFTED

We Shifted Every day, there's this part within me, which hopes this all is just a dream and it will soon all be over and we will be back to our everyday lives as we have known it for 2-3 years.

But deep down inside there is that part of me which is facing reality and knows the dark truth, that there's no going back, maybe never. And life as we know is gonna to change. That "this" is what we have and what we'll have to adjust to.

This is what goes on inside me every time we shift during those few weeks of school and house hunting and the week we wait for our stuff to come to the strange place we are going to call our home for the next few years.

A cloud sees the world in his short lifetime, goes along with the wind, wherever she takes him, to the mountains, to the desserts, to the forests, to the ice caps and almost everywhere. The cloud also is so friendly, it picks up little droplets from the places he visits, befriends them, grows with them and travels with them. And then the day comes where he has to let go, say bye to the hitchhiking friends he made. Never knowing when he will see them again, if ever. But he's stronger than that... He mourns for a bit but then moves along, to another place, to another lake to make new friends, to whom eventually he'll have to see go too. And on and on he goes with his life. It's the same with me, you know, I make friends in one place, grow fond of them, and then say bye to them, only to go some place other and to make new friends there again.

People say it must be cool to have so many friends on so many places, I don't deny that, I agree completely. I believe that when I grow up, my widespread friendships will always help me. However, what people don't understand is that it's not easy making new friends and it's not that easy forgetting your old ones.

The thing about old attached friendships is, you are stuck to them. It's as if you are always thinking "What if they were here with me? We would have done that, and laughed about that, clicked photos here and then done that" and so on. It's difficult making new friends because you keep comparing them to your old pals. And yeah I am grateful to this generations social platform, that has given me the opportunity to keep in touch with my old friends.