Categories: just-life
Date: 24 December 2006 00:50:43
This is going to to be a rather unusual/sad Christmas for me as it's the first where I'll have spent the whole runup to Christmas at home instead of at Uni for many, many years.
When I say "/sad" I'm refering to the blog title (yet another song title I'm afraid). One of the hardest things about being back home is that I don't get to see my friends as often as I'd like to. You also discover just how used you are used to seeing people on a regular basis.
Classmates you'll see almost everyday, friends from societies you'll get to see two/three times a week. Housemates/friends you'd see on a regular basis. And it is fairly surprising how much you miss them all when you don't get to see them.
I've managed to get back a couple of times in the last few months, but in no way have I managed to catch up with half of the people that I intended to, but it's not the same. When you don't get to see people you miss out on a lot of stuff.
I was chatting to a friend on msn this evening abou this. They to have finished Uni and have moved away. Since doing so they've discovered that their old (school) friends have moved on and grown up whereas those friends still at Uni are often busy and (importantly) far away. Work collegues are work collegues, not really people you'd hang out with and "grown up" clubs and societies aren't like Uni ones.
It becomes a very lonely time.