Pilgrims in Zurich

People and Situations fluctuate too much.
Its totally unpredictable; there's no sure way to fully qualify or quantify how things will work out;
as long as people are involved.

Over in Switzerland, you feel a bit lonely; making friends with people.
By nature, it is hard to make friends here, because not only are everyone private.
I think, they think like me when it comes to making friends; what is the point of it all?
Considering, of course, that we are exchange students and are returning to Singapore in 6 months or so.
So friendships and all are on too deep a level; there is quite a bit of rationalization when it comes to this. So woe to me myself, i am a bit deep.
But conversely, we can be the sociable people, the Americans, but perhaps; that all might seem less meaningful.

It sure is difficult to make friends compared to the past.
There is simply too much personal preference here.
Personal preference affects how you treat/react to another person.
For example, one person can be absolutely mean to me just because i'm not good looking enough, but be perfectly nice to another person jsut because she/he thinks that person is really smart and can help her. There are a multitude of reasons why one person is nice to the other.
Truthfully, and there's no way we can get around that.

Honestly, the way things are now.
Not just caused by me, but by society as a whole.
Is that people are more private, no one wants to share their innermost thoughts, or what they sincerely feel inside.
That we treat each other with politeness, and a certain sense of courtesy.

Generally, we are too wary of one another; swiss included.
Singaporeans are too wary because we are too used to "clique" culture. We've ideally been brought up to compete with one another.
Swiss are too wary because they value their private life too much.

Its weird, that i've made so few friends here.
It should be more fun than that.
I fully believe the people here are just too diverse.
And just too private.
Or perhaps, the friendly people are too interspersed.
That it depends not just on the chance meeting, but also the chance that opportunity comes for an exchange of ideas and development of understanding, and finally the chance that newly formed social dynamics do not conflict with previously formed ones.

We all define what we like and treasure now; all too distinctly.
I miss my friends all over the world;
for 1. their honesty with me, 2. their openness with me, 3. the good values and fair ways they treat everyone, 4. the group spirit they have, 5. how they live and fulfill their life's dreams and goals, 6. for the nice people they are, not just to me but to many others.

How complex the world is.
How complex life here in Zurich is.
Seriously, familiarity doesn't breed contempt, rather it brings friends.