Thanks for the great post. As a second-time expat (originally from Scotland, I emigrated a first time to France, and then a second time to Japan), I know where you are coming from. It sure can be hard realising that so many of your "friends" were nothing of the sort, just acquaintances who conversed with you for lack of anything else to do, who simply happened to work in the same company as you, or who felt obliged to interact with you on the simple basis that you had so many other "friends" in common. And then not hearing from then again when you move or, even worse, realising that most of them did not even take the time to see you one last time before you left. And then, of course, arriving in a foreign land, having to start again from zero, and having to make new friends, all the while wondering whether they will turn out to be real friends, or just more "friends..."
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