Thought of the Week - Friendships

"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene Dietrick

When I moved to London four years ago, I knew that one of my biggest challenges was going to be to make friends. Not filler-friends, you know the types you see every once in a while and all you guys talk about are things like work, holidays and random stuff that actually is quite boring. I needed to find real-friends, the kind of friend you truly actually could ring up at 4am and who wouldn't hang up on you.

Over the four years I have managed to find a few real gems, people who get me and who makes me laugh. Some are old friends living far away from me, who I don't see as often as I'd like and others are relatively new ones, some of them living close by and who are easier to meet on a weekly basis.

I've always been open to meeting new people and making new friends, but not all people are. Some decide to stick with the same bunch of friends they've had since primary school - believing that they are "the chosen ones", but that has never been my thing.

Making new friends, to me, is a way of developing yourself and learning about trust in different forms and learning to appreciate differences in people's personalities. I know some people who want to be friends with EVERYONE, but end up being friends with hardly anyone, since they are too busy pleasing too many.

Friendship is hard work and takes time, but taking the time and making the effort is always worth it. So that's what I intend to always do, make the effort and take the time.