Friendship : She Taught Me What Unconditional Love Is

She taught me what #Unconditional Love is

The post about friendship...

Celebrating the Christimas and New Years in Bangkok, Thailand. December 2016

The way I understand unconditional love is - love me through my ugly: love me when I am wrong, when I am impossible to be loved when I am at my worst. It’s not giving me the permission to be this way but when I am - give me some love.
This all is how unconditional love works.
Imagine it the love from mom to her child especially in the first few months, when the babe is so helpless and very dependent and still makes moms life more challenging but that is the times pure and unconditional love right there. This is something I wanted to share about.

I have my dearest best friend - Italia. And I am about to get emotional as I am writing this post, but anyway let’s do this because it matters to me.

Sometimes we look alike

We met back in 2015 in Bucharest, Romania and we were supposed to be teammates and roommates.
As any normal relationship develops, we started to get to know each other and we had almost spent 24/7 in the first weeks of our time in Romania together.

To be honest, we had lots of conflicts at work, due to the intense synergy between both of our functions. I was responsible to send Romanian students on volunteering international internships to another countries and she was marketing, who needed to bring me those leads ( interested people ). A part from work things were very good.

And in the second month I learned how big hearted and a true happy child she is inside and that what still impress me as of today. She is the person who enjoys the life with all its events and most importantly who looks at it from pure child perspective.

Typical her enjoying things she loves

She is fond of Disney and know almost all the songs by heart.
But the bigger reason is she is truly good friend, who was there in the hardest moments of my life. Who was there when we were not on track at work and would always give her best to change the situation for the best.

• The moments, when I was lost in my next steps after AIESEC and making me feel all is going to be alright and in fact it is alright.

• The moments, when I was hell depressed after the tough break up.

• The moments of challenges in Malaysia, in the times of uncertainty and being lost.

And I know I wasn’t the best Elvira in all those tough challenging periods of my life but not once she turned away, not once she wasn’t there for me. This is her teaching me what unconditional love is, teaching me without realising me. Inspiring me to be the same truly good friend as she is, good friend, daughter, teammate, flat mate, partner and just human being.

For the last two years this has been a very great friendship with lots of amazing stories and memories, with lost of deep and meaningful conversations, with lots of dancing and partying, with lots of crying, with lots of laughter and lots of love!

My Romanian and Malaysian experience won’t be the same if you weren’t in them! And unfortunately you are leaving soon. But boy I am so excited for what is coming next! I am very happy for the new chapter in your life, in our life because this friendship is just going to get stronger and deeeper!

We visitied over twenty cities together across the world

Love you Italka!

PS: her real name is Italia, it is like the name of the country in Europe - Italy. Funny fact, her dad really loves traveling and way back in 1980s he was in Europe and decided to name his daughter - Italia. And she would have had younger daughter she would have named her - Austria ( which I think is not the best name haha) and if he would have had son he would name him - Paris( really love this name).

Thanks for reading and being with me,

Xoxo
@elvira.galina