A big small world

Lately, I seem to have lost friends and loved ones to the world. People have come and gone, increasingly, for the past few years, and I guess I first lost myself to the world eight months ago, saying goodbye to many at home - for a while at least. Then I had to say goodbye to so many new friends halfway through my travels, when most of the exchange students left for home. Another half later, I had to say goodbye to the ones left in Singapore.

One of my best friends spend the year in the US, and decided to stay for the summer. After the mandatory year in Finland, completeing her studies, she might leave again. Another one of the bests, who I already lost once for Copenhagen, is indeed coming to Finland for the summer, but then leaving for a year to Central America, even further away. She's one I don't expect to move back to Helsinki, ever again. My sister, the one person I missed the most when away, is dancing her way to LA this summer, staying there the whole year.

Friends do stay friends, family is bound by even stronger ties, but a distance rarely makes people closer.

I can't decide if the world is getting bigger or smaller. Smaller, since people have the chance to go, see, live and explore the world in a whole new way, and yet still at the same time stay in touch with everyone back home, only a click away. Bigger, because the people we love don't stay home anymore, but spread out to every corner of the world. And we ourselves, when living all around this small world, we leave friends and loved ones behind distances all too big.