Nice people.

Living as a gypsy doesn't give you a chance to make those strong relationships that will keep you at your house's porch with your lifelong friends at the sunset of your life. On the other hand, you'll have the chance to know new and amazing people along the way.

It is true, we might someday regret the fact that we did not built the solid relationships in the neighborhood that psychologists say we will need later in life, or maybe not. Sometimes we deeply miss someone to talk about absolutely nothing, about our dreams, fears, random projects, the shape of the clouds and the music we like.

Every time I meet someone at a party or an event I ask myself, is this person going to be an acquaintance, a friend or just another entry in my phone book that I will eventually erase after a useless struggle to try to remember his face. In the end, we will exchange information and to make up a match is going to be necessary a little bit of effort on both sides.

Fortunately for us, we've met great people along the way. Last weekend we had the chance to go to Fernanda's hometown to have a churrasco (bbq) by a waterfall. The place was idyllic, but the company was too. At that place we remembered a similar moment we had with Waldo and Valeria in Mackinac, when we had a discussion at the shores of the lake Huron about how simple things can make you feel at ease with yourself, no need for more. To spend those simple moments with the right people can make them a moment you won't forget. I've had those singing in the street, cooking a dinner, going for chicken wings, talking about a bottle opener, listening to James Taylor, swimming at a river in Veracruz, watching the sunset in Cartagena, climbing Gediminas Tower, holding hands in a plane, eating a Kebab in Scotland, driving a snowmobile through a maple forest, sitting above Echo Cove at the Bay of Fundy, saving turtles in the beach, and so on, and so on.

In the end, the most important thing I take from my past lives are people, those who have opened their lives and hearts to me. This is just a simple reminder to tell you how important you are for me and how grateful I am to have spent even a little piece of life with you.


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Lilirog ha dicho que…
Only other gypsies understand the feeling.

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