last night we went to mahak's in lusaka, an indian food restaurant, to commemorate the departure of one of the young women who live on our floor at the nusring hostels. i had only ran into her a few times during the week that i've been here, and there were a few people there whom we had just met earler in the day visiting the museum. this happens frequently when i travel and live briefly in a new place. relationships come into existence quickly, they spark brightly, and the almost always fade utterly. perhaps our paths will cross again, but more likely than not they never will.
prior to mahak's, i skyped with a good friend of mine for almost two hours. we were lamenting about the difficulty of forging lasting relationships in a cauldron of instability. i remarked that a more effective strategy would be to learn to better live in the moment - to find random flings rather than to seek true love, so to speak. not something i find satisfying, by any means, but perhaps it is something i could grow to appreciate?
i feel that dynamism is so important, but at some point you can change so much that you begin to lose the core of who you are. so... i find it difficult to appreciate both these transient relationships and the longer-lasting ones, since they seem to be so different.
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