The Beauty of Having TCK Friends

Posted on January 20, 2014

It’s been a while since I made my last blog post, but I thought it was time to get started again! Yesterday I received a pleasantly unexpected call from an old friend of mine, someone I haven’t seen (and talked to really) in over 6 months. Sometimes it gets really awkward when you haven’t seen someone for half a year and you’re expected to carry a decent conversation. But that usually isn’t the case with TCKs. It seems that we just pick up where we left off, no matter how long ago that was.

TCK friends are great to talk to, because we’re all experiencing the same thing, even if we were born on opposite sides of the Earth. The connections we make when we are younger can make us so much richer when we are older. It is in our late teens/early twenties that  TCKs get dispersed, and everyone starts living their own life. A few years later, though, it seems that we realise how much we miss each other. That is when TCK friends are great, because it means we can visit them in countries all over the world. No matter how lonely we feel in our current geographic location, we will be rewarded in the future because of the amazing connections we forgot we had. Stay in touch, but even if you don’t, you’ll be surprised at how many people are actually on your side.