Long Distance Friendship
What is one thing about yourself that you’re most proud of?
I’m really proud of how I’m able to juggle work at the library and my university studies (second year Birkbeck Uni students, hello!). I’m also really proud of how I was once able to save up for a Cartier Tank for my birthday. Oh, the many shopping carts I had to abandon, woe is me!
But over the course of the last couple of months, I’ve become more aware of one particular skill: my ability to bring friends together.
I love my friends. Especially friends that I’ve spent my entire life with.
When you have friends that know you more than you know yourself, they can be a wake-up call, a warm cup of tea, a warning for things you cannot see. They can bring you back to a simpler time, be that body of light that you need during your darkest times.
But just as I’m good at bringing people together, I’m just as equally lucky to have friends who respond to my invites, receive them wholeheartedly and make their own efforts to return those sentiments back to me.
Which brings us to Long Distance Friendship.
Long Distance Friendship is a podcast series conceived after one Saturday afternoon on Facebook Messenger, where two of my friends in Manila and I attempt to watch Raya: The Last Dragon through a shared screen. Afterwards, while we were discussing how cool the escrima was and how little I still trust in Namaari’s character, a lightbulb in me turned on. Yes, the same lightbulb that goes “we should have a PoDcAsT, guys!”
A few weeks later, the idea turned into planning, which brought forth the recording and editing.
Featuring Aira Punayo, GJ Thiemens, Troy Cabida and Angelica Aguijon, tune in as we discuss, offer tips, reminisce and go through a whole lot of laughter as we talk about friendship in all of its layers, from the sweetness of childhood to the ever-so-exhausting phase we Millennials like to call “adulting”: which may include conversations about relationships, working from home, full-time parenting and being a poetry superstar.
It’s a space for us to congregate as a family, as individuals. A place where our friendship can continue growing, maybe enough to show the world that when things last and are cared for, something special happens.
Watch out for our first episode, dropping on Soundcloud and Spotify on Friday, 26th of November!