Two days ago, I sent an email to a friend that I was losing, he is an Argentinian who had been living here for a while, he is so nice and has the greatest sense of humor ever, he worked with the company for longer than myself, I couldn't even remember how we started talking or how we became friends, but if I go far back in my memory, I see a nice sunny afternoon, in one of his reflection sessions in the garden,"Bahiano way" we started talking and he was so funny, I didn’t even ask him his name that afternoon, and then when we were about to go back to the office we crossed one of our drivers on the way in and the driver greeted him saying “ Hi Mario” he gave him back a hi and turned to me saying “ I don’t know why this guy calls me Mario when my name is Diego!!!” the way he said it was so funny I didn’t stop laughing all the way to my office.
Along the way I remember so many funny scenes, like that one time, he was so busy and didn’t have time to go cut his hair and let it grow into a natural spiky due, and just to make me laugh he bounced his head on the sides to move his hair gracefully, on his way to an important meeting lol that was very funny :P.
During the past couple of months he kinda disappeared, and every time I went to see him he wasn’t there and never took my phone calls, I got angry “ kind off” because for me, being friends means sticking out for each other and being present, anyhow, some sources told me that he was going through a depression and also gave me a quick view on his past experiences within not only the company but also as an ex-pat in my country. He wasn’t really doing good at work and his wife couldn’t handle staying here and he had to send her back home, he was kinda feeling alone I guess and left out, I think that is why he was depressed.
Returning to the email, I was angry at him so, I sent him a very strong but nice email, telling him basically that he was an AH and that I miss the funny nice him, I also expressed the fact that he can rely on me if he needed a friend, the next day which was yesterday; he was standing in my office !! we had a cappuccino together and we catch up on the lost time " that was really sweet of him", and he told me about a training course that he would be attending in Salvador within the same time frame of my course, so we decided to meet-up and have a dinner in a different environment, in a country were both of us will be strangers, we will share one page in the book of our memories and I am happy for that.
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