Sunday, July 8, 2012

Did you know...

1. That I made friends this trip? I am not talking about people that you call your friend and then two days later you dump them because they wore the same outfit as you (Just for the record I have never done that, but if I ever get married and you show up wearing my wedding dress, I will disown you). I actually want to continue to keep in contact with them. I feel invested in their successes and their failures (although I never want them to fail) and I just actually like them. I mean I like all my friends and I enjoy people's company, but normally I easily find reasons why not to hang out with people. Even though we spent such a large amount of time together in such a short time period, I wasn't sick of them. Is this weird? I think it is weird that I am so optimistic about the relationships I have just forged. Normally I am a bit of a realist when it comes to life and especially people and occasionally I get a bit Negative Nancy. Maybe I have grown up enough that I am confident in my ability to maintain relationships. No that definitely isn't it. Maybe it is because I am needy. Now that is a real possibility! hahaha! In all honesty, I do think I am a little needy, but not desperately so. It is an every once in awhile I would like some attention sort of thing.

OK that was a HUGE segue. Back to the point (if you could call it that). When I travel it is rare that I ask for people's contact information because most of the time I see them as vacation friends who I would never talk to after the trip. I don't share anything that personal with them or ask anything personal about them. They are just sort of people I got along with and hung out with until I went to the next city. Often times I think they think the same thing as I do, which is why they rarely ask for my contact info. I realize this makes me sound like I just use people and maybe that is true, but I genuinely don't often go out and seek out relationships. The people that I am still in contact with from my travels are the people that sort of snuck up on me and I think that is awesome! It makes it all the more fun! So I made friends! Go me! I guess that makes me sound like I didn't have any before, but hopefully you, my dear reader, know that is not the case! At least I hope that is not the case ;)

2. That every trip I take I get a trip crush? I hope I am not the only one who has these and I don't think I am, I just don't think that is what most people would call it. A trip crush has normally is just someone you wouldn't mind spending the majority of your time with during the trip. Someone who you just want to keep getting to know better and better. You would stay up all night talking or even just sit there with them just to hang out.  That made it sound really unhealthy and creepy. Let me try again. A trip crush is someone who you just like because you can and you find them fun. They also don't have to be in tune with your sexual orientation. For example, I am into men, but I can have both men and women as trip crushes. It doesn't mean you want to sleep with them or be their gf/bf (although it could be if you really wanted to go down that path). Anyway, normally I have a person or a couple per month of travel that I trip crush on and this crush is usually because I find them adorable and genuinely good people, but over the last two and a half weeks, I have had trip crush overload. Hence, the rambling above. Sometimes a trip crush is just something you entertain until you part from them and realize that it was silly to like hanging out with them that much and then you wait the appropriate amount of time to delete them on Facebook. This trip and my Spring trip just don't fit that mould though and it makes me so excited. Granted, this feeling of wanting to stay in contact could just be me and they could just be waiting until the appropriate time to delete me from their Facebook. If that is the case, so be it, but I hope that we are on the same page.

3. This post is already pretty long, so I think I will just say (and please forgive the mushiness): Did you know that I feel so grateful to my family, my friends, and everyone else in my life for helping me get to where I am today? There are days when I am ridiculously unhappy and angry and frustrated with life and with people, but without all of that and without all the love and support I have received I never would have made it here to Bath or the UK or Europe or University or anywhere. With that being said, please make donations to the Alex is broke fund. hahaha jk! Well I am broke, but I can survive the summer, so no donations are necessary!

Much Love! Hope you all are in as good a mood as I am! New posts about the cities I have been to should be up soonish! 

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