Friends are Forever!!

During our primary and secondary school days, I recalled that we often keep autograph books. We used to write in them all sorts of funny and childish friendship poems and shorthand. But today, I realized that some of those childish stuffs are actually meaningful. I still remember that my best friend wrote FRANCE in my autograph book, meaning:
Friendship
Remains
And
Never
Can
End…

I truly experienced it - in France!!!

I was reading through my diary for the past one month that I had typed almost everyday in my laptop during my trip in France. It is really amazing how I had pulled myself together and survived so well, that I dread coming home. Well, I knew that all this will never be possible if not for my friends.

I was away from home for more than a month and I am extremely pleased and proud of myself that I could survived those past 5 weeks, because I knew that even though my love ones are not with me, my friends will stand by me. But, friends do have times when we quarrel. For one of my diary’s entry, I wrote this and I had realized that friendship is indeed one of the most important assets I’ve ever had.

From my diary:
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 11.47pm

I cried.

I feel that pj had always been ignoring me and that annoys me. Whenever I talk to her, I didn’t receive any response and I was so pissed off today that I gave her cold shoulder. I guessed she had noticed it and asked if anything was wrong. She went on and probed me into saying what I was unhappy about. I knew I will cry and refused to speak. So, I insist that we will discuss about that matter tonight when we were back at the hostel, but she kept on pressuring me to speak. In the end, I told her how I felt and broke down in the classroom…
Some classmates smelled the burning fume and ran for their dear lives, except one, who eavesdrop the entire conversation!! Bloody Hell!!! I needed some privacy!!!

On our way home, I was quite alright. Perhaps I had let it all out. Instead, pj was extremely quiet, isolating herself from the rest of us. I knew she was down, so do I… In the bus, I sat down beside pn instead of pj. It feels bad to hurt my friend, but I swear, it wasn’t deliberate!!
Perhaps, we did not know each other long enough to understand and interpret the body language correctly, thus ended up with all those unnecessary misunderstandings that hinder our friendship.

At the hostel, she asked again if I had anything to say but I kept mum; not because I had nothing to say, but I was speechless towards a friend who kept ignoring me. I knew I was harsh, hurting and mean… but frank. I was affected and very upset because I treasure our friendship and will only treat my friends the way I was being treated. If my friend ignores me, I will do just the same. An eye for an eye, that’s the way I am. She replied that she was never ignoring me from the start and that friends don’t quarrel. Well, perhaps she’s right. Friends don’t give each other cold shoulder too… for that moment, I only thought I was right.

I knew I was about to detonate if I were to remain in the room with her. So, to keep the situation under control, I switched on the tv and had a cold shower. I could vividly hear her crying outside and my heart melted. It was a bitter feeling and my tears couldn’t stop but flow. I don’t want to lose a good friend like her, because we had been roommate for a month and I really enjoy my stay with her.

I stepped out from the shower and apologized. I told her that I was pleased and glad to realize the fact that we are indeed different, and we had showed that we were unhappy with each other. We apologized again, and gave each other a hug, promising no more arguments in the future.
Ohh gosh… that was like so drama!! But at least for now, everything is well and I will certainly have the sweetest dream tonight. =)



The End

True friendship is not build upon money or material goods. I guess. If we make an effort to compromise those differences between one another, it will definitely strengthen the friendship and make our friend more worthwhile. Great friendship at the expense of a few drops of tears, who say it isn’t worth it??




Friends who sent me off *touched*


Buddies in France

That's what friends are for~