It is not a new realisation, but lately it has come to hurt more. Everyone leaves. I guess before now it was always me, moving on to University and leaving people in Ashburton, moving on to work in Australia and leaving all my Uni friends, and then moving on from Melbourne and leaving those people behind. Now it is happening to me.
I have been in Santiago for 2 years and 10 months. That is longer than I lived in Australia. In that time I have made a lot of friends. Most of them are Chilean so leaving hasn't been a big problem (I have one really good Chilean friend studying in Germany but he is coming back so he is forgiven). I have probably made three or four really close foreign friends. Now the third one of those four is leaving. It is really hard to find people who have a similar mentality, and when you do, you want to hold onto them. But it is a matter of letting what you love go. It doesn't make it easy. And it makes it all that much harder to let another foreigner in. Always in the back of your mind you will be thinking; how long until this one abandons me.
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