Now We're Talking!

Okay. I mean it this time. It's official. It really is!

I have been granted a New Zealand residence permit. They have also issued me my first returning resident's visa so that I can be granted another residence permit when I leave NZ and return while said visa is valid.

And I've got these cool stickers in my passport now declaring my status here in New Zealand. All very official.

Finally!

And, I had a conversation with a girlfriend from home on the phone this afternoon and it made me so happy! Obviously just to hear her voice but also because it was like we just spoke or saw each other yesterday (oh how I wish!) because it was so comfortable and natural. Warmed my heart because I know it will always be like that with my nearest and dearest. Distance has and will continue to have NOTHING over love and friendship.

Mere Humans

It really makes me sad that one of the flaws we possess as human beings is the ability to disappoint. Because I hate that feeling. Disappointment. You know, I give and I give and I give and it's really getting to me that, with certain people, I never seem to get anything back; ever. It's really disheartening.

Well, it's simple, you may say. Just stop giving to him/her/them. Ah, but you see, it's not that simple. Because if I were to do that, I would be compromising who I am and that's an entirely different disappointment and not one I want to live with at all.

So I just get depressed.

Disappointed and depressed. Not pretty.

Lower my expectations where he/she/they are concerned? Perhaps.

Yes, I think I'll give that a try.