Today we spent time with Dudo and Karin, a wonderful couple who have been a big part of Ramesha’s life for decades. They were some of the first people I felt close to when I moved to Lugano, despite the fact that we couldn’t speak one another’s language.
Ramesha and I got together in 2003, the same year that Samuele, their first child was born (Lia arrived in 2005). Now here we are, visiting them in 2019, and I couldn’t stop staring at Samuele, who’s done a whole lot of growing up in the past two years!
So Dudo and I were reflecting on the importance of true friends, and of the kind of friendship where you see each other after two years of living on opposite sides of the world (with hardly any contact in the meantime) and it feels as though it was only a couple of days since you were last together.
And what we realized is that this is why it comes as such a shock to see how children have grown, because it’s the measurable changes we see in them that makes the passage of time real for us.