Leave Your Sanity With the Nearest Customs Agent

“Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, “What! You too? Thought I was the only one.” C.S. Lewis

            As much as I try to deny it, I am basically homesick every day. After being overseas for over 2 years, it hasn’t gotten any easier. Then I was reading Jodi’s Weblog about friendship. All of this is compounded by the fact that my back is itching like maddingly crazy and there is nothing I can do about. But I think as I get older, those friendships I have formed are more and more important.

            And 7 years ago this month, I met Davi. I still remember the day we meet. We were moving into the dorms at school. She had gotten there a day or two before me and had already started moving in. She had put up Jim Morrison posters. As I started moving in, I hung up my posters of Jimi Hendrix. We both thought, to ourselves of course, this might be cool. At that moment, our friendship was born. That first year was full of ups and downs and we survived.

            Davi is one of those people who knows all about me, even the shitty stuff, and still like me. She put up with my craziness and sometimes even encourages it. And after all this time of being overseas, she is still talking to me. And today is one of those days that I know she is putting more into the friendship than me. I just hope that she sticks around.

            So some stuff everyone should know about Davi.

1. We have bonded over Scott Weiland. To the point that we met up in London so we can go see him in concert.

2. In a country of iron constitutions, she sends me Pepto-Bismol.

3. We have matching Coach handbags, which she bought for us.

4. She is one of those people that I can call at 3 in the morning and will be there for me.

5. She is one of the few people I can sit in complete silence with and feel absolutely comfortable.

6. Did I mention Scott?

7. How about Johnny Deep?

8. She knows more about music than anyone else I know

9. I was with her when she got her first tattoo.

10. She understands my personal craziness.

“We will be friends until forever, just you wait and see.” A.A. Milne

That is if she will put up with me for that long.