"How did you meet them?"

I dropped J and her husband back and the hotel yesterday, and continued the cab ride home. The cab uncle asked "how did you meet these friends?"

Whenever I was going to visit a friend overseas, or have friends visiting Singapore overseas, people asked me the same question.

Not sure why, but most people are intrigued that these friends from afar were neither schoolmates or colleagues. They are friends that somehow walked into my life at different seasons of my life - through other friends, or are relatives/friends of friends and somehow stayed in my life, despite the distances between us.

And when we crossed oceans and caught up in person, it's as if we were never apart.

I am so thankful, for all my friends, from here, there and everywhere. =)