Mission Accomplished!

My goal was to start making friends and I did just that today. Before I left California my friend Desh introduced me to his friend Trishna via email who he met during his undergrad days . I emailed her earlier this week and we made plans to meet up for brunch today. She suggested this placed called Caramel in the town of Victoria-it was only one tube stop away from my place! It was a great place. Very quaint, great menu, and affordable. It reminded me of brunch places I had been to in New York. Trishna and I ended up talking for fours hours. Turns out she is originally from San Francisco and went to Berkeley so we have mutual friends. Small world! Immediately I could tell we were going to be friends. We had a lot of common interests and we related quite well to one another. She was also a great resource on tapping into British culture. She is married to a Brit so she shared with me some great insights on people's values, choices and essentially the reasons they do the things they do.

When Trishna and I were talking one of the things that we discussed was how increasingly difficult it becomes to make friends as you get older. At this point in my life I have had friends for so long and they know everything about me. The good, the bad, all the history and drama. Therefore the nice thing is you dont have to spend time getting people up to speed on your life. They get you and so when you say certain things or do certain things there's no explanation needed. The question becomes do I want to start investing in people or will people want to invest in me knowing that I'm here for a limited time? At the end of the day if I don't make a circle of friends here I know this experience won't be the same so I have to be willing to invest. Maybe I need to make a Cliff Notes version of my life.