Every time I had to move a fairly big distance, I had to reset. To drop bad inter-personal connections and toxic relationships and forge new friendships or renew older ones. With some it’s easier, with others it’s hard. I’m a fairly sociable person and I care a lot about my friends, so it’s easy from my part to warm up connections that were fading away. But even if I’m sociable, I’m also very picky and I don’t keep close too many. I wish though I would keep close more people who are really nice and very dear to me, but the Dunbar’s number is a reality, as much as we try to push that further.

Going to university in a different city

Dropping it and moving back home.

Moving to Bucharest

Dropping the second university

Moving back home. Again

Getting a job and moving again to Bucharest

Moving to the United Kingdom

Changing towns in the United Kingdom

Trading the island for Romania

Moving back to my hometown

Contemplating moving abroad again.

Moving also has benefits, it gives you the opportunity to meet new people, fun people, smart people, and some of you will keep following you, even if only socially, for a long time. But adding more people to your friends “list” means that you need to shed a few, even if not completely.

Springtime is also the “season of renewal” in some cultures, where the Earth starts living again after the long winter, where trees blossom, where everything is reborn anew. And just like nature, our spirits need sometime a bit of renewal. Do your spring cleaning.

Throw away the toxic people in your life, renew the connection with that good friend that you keep postponing to call.