I have ten (10) friends who I can call real friends when we were still single. Well, I am still single and they entered the married life.
We were so close that it didn’t come to my mind that the time to separate our ways will come. No text messages, no calls, no emails! Whew! Maybe they are just busy with their family lives that they forget they still have friends waiting for them.
What is a friend? The most common definition - a friend is the one who is always there no matter how high or low the level of your life is. A friend who is always there when you are happy or sad, a victor or a looser, strong or weak.
I felt they have changed. They are not my friends anymore. Because they are not there anymore in any circumstance of my life. But life has to move on. With or without them. Thanks to them that I have learned what is being a friend.
Now, I have new friends. I have a lot of them. More than what I have before but the difference is not only in numbers but in the attitude and the meaning of our friendship, through thick and thin. I am alone here in Saudi Arabia, miles away from my friends who themselves are continents apart. But we are still together. No only in emails, phone calls, text messages and chatting, but also in prayers.
We were bound by the events that happened when we were together, when we were working together, and celebrating the success of another. We were bound by the experiences that we shared and the heartaches that we felt. We are happy for the success of each other. Or we are sad for the mistakes that were made by another. They have their own family and yet they didn’t desert me, nor I deserted them.
And that is what friends are for.
We were so close that it didn’t come to my mind that the time to separate our ways will come. No text messages, no calls, no emails! Whew! Maybe they are just busy with their family lives that they forget they still have friends waiting for them.
What is a friend? The most common definition - a friend is the one who is always there no matter how high or low the level of your life is. A friend who is always there when you are happy or sad, a victor or a looser, strong or weak.
I felt they have changed. They are not my friends anymore. Because they are not there anymore in any circumstance of my life. But life has to move on. With or without them. Thanks to them that I have learned what is being a friend.
Now, I have new friends. I have a lot of them. More than what I have before but the difference is not only in numbers but in the attitude and the meaning of our friendship, through thick and thin. I am alone here in Saudi Arabia, miles away from my friends who themselves are continents apart. But we are still together. No only in emails, phone calls, text messages and chatting, but also in prayers.
We were bound by the events that happened when we were together, when we were working together, and celebrating the success of another. We were bound by the experiences that we shared and the heartaches that we felt. We are happy for the success of each other. Or we are sad for the mistakes that were made by another. They have their own family and yet they didn’t desert me, nor I deserted them.
And that is what friends are for.
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