Life?

In the beginning when I was meeting Dragon's friends from work I felt like an outsider. They were lovely people and were treating me really nicely, but they all knew each other and had their own circles - so I felt I wasn't part of the gang. I don't know when it changed. Maybe since the game they were all working on finished and they all got new projects, and with the latest - er - reorganization some of them got fired... result was that they didn't spend all the time together anymore and started meeting each other only outside work. However the change is most likely more in my head than anything else... I'm nowadays very careful with what information I choose share with people I don't know, and it takes a while for me to get comfortable with strangers. I have accepted that these people actually like me and are honestly happy to see me and spend time with me.

Whatever the reason, I now feel like I have friends among these people. Meeting them is easy and fun. Last night we went out for a curry (good Indian places are a rarity here, something taken granted in England), I gave out the books I had ordered from Amazon for the book group everyone volunteered for and we just enjoyed the food and each others company.

Could this be normal life, something I was mostly lacking in England? Life here in many ways is happer... Dragon works less so our relationship is much healthier, myself too, I have a better balance between work and spare time (which means yoga, mostly), and now - friends that I want to spend time with. It's almost like I forgot how to have a life like this, for it's been so long I even forgot it ever existed, gave up on even wanting it. And yet, here it is.

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