I always have a thing for human connection. I know its super weird to say that but like Virginia Woolf once said "What I value is the naked contact of mind." I've been so damn lucky to find people - some of them later become my friends- to share the connection that are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.
The first few days when I got here, sometimes I felt the feeling of utter loneliness I could not explain exactly even to myself why I felt that way. But I still guess it was a lack of human connection I needed.
But again sometimes our light goes out, but it blown again into instant flame with another human being.
This morning, after a marathon movie night watching Stranger Things season 2 on Netflix with Max, waking up with blurry mind, I received a message from John said he's leaving Hanoi today (for Boston I assume) and told me to take care and keep thinking. He’s one of the most respected persons I’ve met. But tbh it’s not like we've been knowing each other for a long time or anything to call it a friendship. But when I read that message even though  I haven’t replied him yet cuz I dunno yet what to say except wishing him all the best, I realised John and I, well at least from my view, are more than just acquaintances which is something makes my whole day shines brightly.
And in this very moment I feel the exact Opposite of Loneliness. 
Like Marina Keegan wrote: "We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life."