friends
friends are instrumental in our lives because they bear witness to what our life experience. There are those who have been with you throughout most of your lives. People who you have known for years and years. Then there are also those very brief encounters where 2 people can connect and become firm friends -- even if its for a few days or months. And such people come and go in life. I am usually glad to have met them, and then to let them go as we move on. Thats the norm.Then, once in a blue moon, one of these friends, who you thought you will never meet again appears. And with them, the memories of when and where you met. Its brings back so much nostalgia. The shared past becomes a connection, nothing more than that, but still, its something that means so much to me. It makes me so happy. Honestly.
So a few years ago, that was just after i graduated, I went to Italy for a conference. Then, I was in the in-between-state of not being certain of what i want to do, and i had hoped back then that going to a conference could help. It was on retrospect, my first conference and i had a very good time there. The people i met etc. So many years later, i actually got an email from one of them. Wow...
Its strange to realize i enjoyed that conference so much more than then recent one i went to this year. Like the most recent conference i attended, i hated the flight there, i hated the lodgings, i hated the weather, i hated the shady people (some), i hate the way my institute handled the travel arrangements. i have so much to gripe about. I felt that i will never want to go for another conference.
Since i am leaving the current institute, here's to better conferences!!
btw, FACEBOOK rocks... hahhaha
Labels: friends, life, research
posted by eline @ 1:15 AM
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