Comments on: Stuck. http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:55:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: more cowbell http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/#comment-29705 more cowbell Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:08:56 +0000 http://www.eurotrippen.com/?p=708#comment-29705 Oh girl, this one really hit home hard. And that's all I can say about that at this point in time. Hugs. more cowbells last blog post..<a href="http://needcowbell.blogspot.com/2008/07/so-how-long-has-it-been-since-ive.html" rel="nofollow">A Couple of Months in the Life</a> Oh girl, this one really hit home hard. And that’s all I can say about that at this point in time. Hugs.

more cowbells last blog post..A Couple of Months in the Life

]]> By: Absolutely Tokyo http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/#comment-29566 Absolutely Tokyo Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:50:54 +0000 http://www.eurotrippen.com/?p=708#comment-29566 Ab Fab! "Surfaces, darling. I need surfaces!!!" One of my all-time faves! Watching those episodes is enough to cheer anyone up! Absolutely Tokyos last blog post..<a href="http://gambatte.blogspot.com/2008/06/excuse-me-but-i-think-theres-someone.html" rel="nofollow">Excuse me but I think there's someone living in my closet!</a> Ab Fab! “Surfaces, darling. I need surfaces!!!” One of my all-time faves! Watching those episodes is enough to cheer anyone up!

Absolutely Tokyos last blog post..Excuse me but I think there’s someone living in my closet!

]]> By: B. http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/#comment-29560 B. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:50:26 +0000 http://www.eurotrippen.com/?p=708#comment-29560 Thanks guys. Since posting this I've eaten an entire box of Oreos and re-watched 3 seasons of Ab Fab. My yin & yang are on speaking terms again, which is pretty much all I can ask... Thanks guys. Since posting this I’ve eaten an entire box of Oreos and re-watched 3 seasons of Ab Fab. My yin & yang are on speaking terms again, which is pretty much all I can ask…

]]> By: essie http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/#comment-29556 essie Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:26:36 +0000 http://www.eurotrippen.com/?p=708#comment-29556 B-as a military wife in total denial-I get it...maybe "grief IS the price we pay for love" but how lucky we are to have people touch our lives, even for a moment. I agree that friendship shouldn't require "work" but I believe that love is work, so, I guess that friendship sometimes is work. I listen to the likes of ee cummings, and choose to "carry you in my heart" when either a friend can't keep up, or I don't. Our daughter's birthday is tomorrow, and her closest friend (with a German parent) left today to live in Florida-forever (of all g-d foresaken places!) Watching the girls, feeling the emotion of their goodbye, aching for their youth and inexperience, hopeful that they can keep a morsel of this beautiful friendship alive...it was definitely "a moment." Goodbyes aren't easy. Dresden might not feel the same for a bit, but rest assured, you have cyber friends willing to do the work...and that post wasn't maudlin, it was real. B-as a military wife in total denial-I get it…maybe “grief IS the price we pay for love” but how lucky we are to have people touch our lives, even for a moment. I agree that friendship shouldn’t require “work” but I believe that love is work, so, I guess that friendship sometimes is work. I listen to the likes of ee cummings, and choose to “carry you in my heart” when either a friend can’t keep up, or I don’t.

Our daughter’s birthday is tomorrow, and her closest friend (with a German parent) left today to live in Florida-forever (of all g-d foresaken places!) Watching the girls, feeling the emotion of their goodbye, aching for their youth and inexperience, hopeful that they can keep a morsel of this beautiful friendship alive…it was definitely “a moment.” Goodbyes aren’t easy.

Dresden might not feel the same for a bit, but rest assured, you have cyber friends willing to do the work…and that post wasn’t maudlin, it was real.

]]> By: Absolutely Tokyo http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/#comment-29555 Absolutely Tokyo Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:10:19 +0000 http://www.eurotrippen.com/?p=708#comment-29555 Boy, can I relate! Every time someone I had come to love being around made the sayanora announcement, I felt like the rug had been pulled out from under me. I would try to imagine visiting them some day in some other country, but deep down I knew it would probably never happen. As you said, it's the expat way to move on to other adventures, but when you're the one getting left behind, it hurts too much. Even when I was the one who left, I knew all about the empty promises to "keep in touch." Absolutely Tokyos last blog post..<a href="http://gambatte.blogspot.com/2008/06/excuse-me-but-i-think-theres-someone.html" rel="nofollow">Excuse me but I think there's someone living in my closet!</a> Boy, can I relate! Every time someone I had come to love being around made the sayanora announcement, I felt like the rug had been pulled out from under me. I would try to imagine visiting them some day in some other country, but deep down I knew it would probably never happen. As you said, it’s the expat way to move on to other adventures, but when you’re the one getting left behind, it hurts too much. Even when I was the one who left, I knew all about the empty promises to “keep in touch.”

Absolutely Tokyos last blog post..Excuse me but I think there’s someone living in my closet!

]]> By: Jul http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/#comment-29554 Jul Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:16:11 +0000 http://www.eurotrippen.com/?p=708#comment-29554 Now I have 'Leaving New York' stuck in my head... "It's easier to leave than to be left behind" Juls last blog post..<a href="http://www.zurika.com/2008/06/important-tip-for-tourists-coming-to.html" rel="nofollow">Important tip for tourists coming to Germany</a> Now I have ‘Leaving New York’ stuck in my head… “It’s easier to leave than to be left behind”

Juls last blog post..Important tip for tourists coming to Germany

]]> By: G http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/#comment-29551 G Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:11:17 +0000 http://www.eurotrippen.com/?p=708#comment-29551 I have a real need to keep in touch with those I care for and I have reached out, over gaps of many years to reconnect: you can. I give up on those who don't reach back, though. Sometimes, when either1. depressed, 2. extremely busy, and 3. overwhelmed with family, it can be hard to keep regularly in touch. That's why blogs! Gs last blog post..<a href="http://bigappletobigbear.blogspot.com/2008/06/insomnia.html" rel="nofollow">Insomnia</a> I have a real need to keep in touch with those I care for and I have reached out, over gaps of many years to reconnect: you can. I give up on those who don’t reach back, though. Sometimes, when either1. depressed, 2. extremely busy, and 3. overwhelmed with family, it can be hard to keep regularly in touch. That’s why blogs!

Gs last blog post..Insomnia

]]> By: Lisa http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/#comment-29550 Lisa Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:53:58 +0000 http://www.eurotrippen.com/?p=708#comment-29550 "grief is the price we pay for love" Hmmm, I think that one's going to be rolling around in my head awhile....I can definitely relate to that, because of someone I was in love with a year ago & went away, pushing me away in the process....And I find that while not as intense as it was even a few months ago, I'm still grieving their absence in my life... Friendships can be hard at the best of times B, all you can do is try to make the most of them as much as you can in the time that you have with them.......Hope that wasn't too hokey, lol :-D “grief is the price we pay for love”

Hmmm, I think that one’s going to be rolling around in my head awhile….I can definitely relate to that, because of someone I was in love with a year ago & went away, pushing me away in the process….And I find that while not as intense as it was even a few months ago, I’m still grieving their absence in my life…

Friendships can be hard at the best of times B, all you can do is try to make the most of them as much as you can in the time that you have with them…….Hope that wasn’t too hokey, lol :-D

]]> By: Sarah http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/#comment-29549 Sarah Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:27:31 +0000 http://www.eurotrippen.com/?p=708#comment-29549 Wow, B. I feel the exact same way about keeping in touch - right down to the sudden realizations & inability (or is it a <i>choice</i> for which I don't want to claim responsibility?) to reach out across great gulfs of time. I've never seen anyone articulate it before, let alone articulate it so well. Thank you. I used to think I had wanderlust like that, but Regensburg is such a great fit that it would be a shame to leave here. Although, it's been here for 2000 years now - if we <i>do</i> leave and decide we shouldn't have, we can always find a way to come back. Wow, B. I feel the exact same way about keeping in touch - right down to the sudden realizations & inability (or is it a choice for which I don’t want to claim responsibility?) to reach out across great gulfs of time. I’ve never seen anyone articulate it before, let alone articulate it so well. Thank you.

I used to think I had wanderlust like that, but Regensburg is such a great fit that it would be a shame to leave here. Although, it’s been here for 2000 years now - if we do leave and decide we shouldn’t have, we can always find a way to come back.

]]> By: christina http://www.eurotrippen.com/2008/06/13/stuck/#comment-29548 christina Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:52:22 +0000 http://www.eurotrippen.com/?p=708#comment-29548 You should try living here for 18 years. Now THAT'S maudlin. :-) :-) I know what you mean about keeping in touch. Luckily I have one or two friends I can pick up with right where we left off even if we haven't talked for months. Most of the others have kind of faded off into the distance. christinas last blog post..<a href="http://justcallmemausi.blogspot.com/2008/06/weve-got-gas.html" rel="nofollow">we've got gas!</a> You should try living here for 18 years. Now THAT’S maudlin.
:-) :-)

I know what you mean about keeping in touch. Luckily I have one or two friends I can pick up with right where we left off even if we haven’t talked for months. Most of the others have kind of faded off into the distance.

christinas last blog post..we’ve got gas!

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