Old Friends, New Friends
"Make new friends but keep the old,
those are silver while these are gold..."
Making my Christmas lists every year is always something I look forward to, because this is the time I get to sift over my friends and divide them according to groups, i.e. high school, college, beijing, post-beijing, aim friends, cdo friends etc etc. It was only this year that I realized that I have gone on several phases of my life and in each phase, I was blessed to have specific groups of friends whom I get close to and meet up with from time to time.
There is something that has to be said about Old Friends... these are those who have been with you from early on, and who have seen you at your worst and ugliest moments of your life (remember puberty?)... these are friends who may be separated from you either by distance, or simply because you went to different colleges and therefore, different paths since then, but when you meet up regardless of the number of months, or years, you feel no awkwardness, no strange feelings of uncertainty and doubt. These are your buddies for life, and the best moment would be reuniting with an Old Friend.
Take my high school friend Tonee for example- all through college and even post college, I can say that she was perhaps the high school kabarkada of mine whom I saw least. I saw and communicated with our friends in the States even more than I did with her (and she lives 10 minutes away from me). But recently, a couple of months ago, we started going out again, and its just so nice to rekindle past friendships, especially those that have existed for more than half your life. Even my Beijing sister and room mate Didi was an Old Friend who I lost touch with in college but whom I was pleasantly reunited with when I needed a room mate in Beijing.
There are New Friends too, who are just as important and special. These are friends who know us as we are now but who make the bestest friends simply because of the shared joys and consistencies of friendship.
I suppose I can say that I am really quite fortunate with my friends. I may not have dozens of friends and hundreds of options in my phonebook, but I do have solid friends who I know I can always count on time and time again.
These are the friends who matter. These are friendships that were built to last.
You know who you are, I love you guys.
those are silver while these are gold..."
Making my Christmas lists every year is always something I look forward to, because this is the time I get to sift over my friends and divide them according to groups, i.e. high school, college, beijing, post-beijing, aim friends, cdo friends etc etc. It was only this year that I realized that I have gone on several phases of my life and in each phase, I was blessed to have specific groups of friends whom I get close to and meet up with from time to time.
There is something that has to be said about Old Friends... these are those who have been with you from early on, and who have seen you at your worst and ugliest moments of your life (remember puberty?)... these are friends who may be separated from you either by distance, or simply because you went to different colleges and therefore, different paths since then, but when you meet up regardless of the number of months, or years, you feel no awkwardness, no strange feelings of uncertainty and doubt. These are your buddies for life, and the best moment would be reuniting with an Old Friend.
Take my high school friend Tonee for example- all through college and even post college, I can say that she was perhaps the high school kabarkada of mine whom I saw least. I saw and communicated with our friends in the States even more than I did with her (and she lives 10 minutes away from me). But recently, a couple of months ago, we started going out again, and its just so nice to rekindle past friendships, especially those that have existed for more than half your life. Even my Beijing sister and room mate Didi was an Old Friend who I lost touch with in college but whom I was pleasantly reunited with when I needed a room mate in Beijing.
There are New Friends too, who are just as important and special. These are friends who know us as we are now but who make the bestest friends simply because of the shared joys and consistencies of friendship.
I suppose I can say that I am really quite fortunate with my friends. I may not have dozens of friends and hundreds of options in my phonebook, but I do have solid friends who I know I can always count on time and time again.
These are the friends who matter. These are friendships that were built to last.
You know who you are, I love you guys.
posted by kath | 4:59 PM
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I love you Kath! :)
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