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India.
Baby powder.
Farts.
'Oh my God'.
The Wanted.
Santorini.
Riding through a cloud.
The crack in the bed.
21 year olds.
Raki.
James.
Domino's.
The Dutch boys.
Game of Thrones.
Naan babies.
These are a few of things that make me think of you.
I have been spending weeks in Turkey, or it feels like weeks, trying to decide what to write about you. I miss you like crazy and still wish you were here.
It is so difficult to let go of someone, especially when you travel with them for months and then one day they are gone.
You became so close to me that an unspoken routine formed and we found a sense of peace, a sense of home in each others never ending presence. Yet, when that reality was broken, and you had to go home, I found it hard not to feel a sense of loss.
A sense of complete disorientation.....
Many of you know that I am an only child and because of that my friends and cousins have become my siblings. They have shared a place within my heart that, I think, only those who share your own blood have. I have many best friends who I cherish more than this adventure I am on and now I have another to add to that remarkable list.
Kate Benson.
If you have being following my blog then you know that Kate and I met on a random bus ride to Bangkok. From there she made the phenomenal decision to change her flight home and come to India with me. We travelled India together for the better part of a month and then ventured off to Greece for a month family vacation with my parents. Two months of travelling with a single soul is the longest I have spent with anyone and it fucking rocked!
They say that some people come into your life for a short time and some come into your life for a long time. Kate is definitely someone who will remain a best friend forever, regardless of geographically location or time. From the day that I met Kate, I felt like I had known her my entire life. We connected so quickly and so deeply that she was instantly someone that I wanted to travel with. After a month of travelling together we knew each other so well she was able to order my desired ice cream flavour without even asking or looking at me. We understood each other on a level that take years to establish in a friendship but somehow came to be in a mere few months. If you have ever travelled with someone for an extended period of time then you understand what it takes to spend every day, every hour, every moment with the same person and still love everything about them. You eat together, you sleep together, you sight see together, you sit on buses for hours together, you endure together, you experience together, you laugh together, you cry together, you share together, you feel together, you live together.
You live as one.
So finding someone that every moment rocks, every moment is easy, every moment is beautiful, every moment is a memory...is well....a true blessing.
You live as one.
So finding someone that every moment rocks, every moment is easy, every moment is beautiful, every moment is a memory...is well....a true blessing.
So from the bottom of my soul I thank the universe for bringing Kate into my life but most of all, I think the world is blessed to have someone as beautiful as Kate in it.
