11-05-2007, 04:47 PM
Wow, interesting thread and thought.
In my business, this is something I have experienced many times throughout my life. Stranagers comming together in a strange land with no back baggage and nothing in common really except the experience of being strangers in a strange land. It's you against them and friendships form fast and hard and on some levels deeper than any I have ever had.
You take each other at face value and out of ...loneliness, fear, desperation believe those face values or reject any attempt to go deeper...or really have the time to dig deeper. Hard, fast and on an emmotional and sometimes physical level that cuts quickly to the chase and forms a bond that is incredible.
Unfortunatley, these friendships rarely pass the "real world". Back at home, when real life, cultures, family and existing freinds and lifestyles re-intrude...these friendships slip away like the cotton candy friendships they were. Big and fluffy but with little substance or staying power.
But for those few short weeks or months I've lived a lifetimes worth. I'll never get them back, the vast majority I've never seen or heard from again, but I'm sure we'll never forget each other either.
In my business, this is something I have experienced many times throughout my life. Stranagers comming together in a strange land with no back baggage and nothing in common really except the experience of being strangers in a strange land. It's you against them and friendships form fast and hard and on some levels deeper than any I have ever had.
You take each other at face value and out of ...loneliness, fear, desperation believe those face values or reject any attempt to go deeper...or really have the time to dig deeper. Hard, fast and on an emmotional and sometimes physical level that cuts quickly to the chase and forms a bond that is incredible.
Unfortunatley, these friendships rarely pass the "real world". Back at home, when real life, cultures, family and existing freinds and lifestyles re-intrude...these friendships slip away like the cotton candy friendships they were. Big and fluffy but with little substance or staying power.
But for those few short weeks or months I've lived a lifetimes worth. I'll never get them back, the vast majority I've never seen or heard from again, but I'm sure we'll never forget each other either.
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