I'm just thinking of this cause somehow I seem to be losing people around me. Relationship of this level can be a shallow or a deep relationship.
I love hanging out with my friends. Really any group of them. Be it my secondary school neighbourhood people, Camp High Achievers (that one time at Loof was smashing!), church mates - they are all that I enjoy being out with.
Now it has come to a point that I meet many new people, but I lose many new found friends. Why? cause they come and go. I meet them at work and lose them after the work. No follow up, no other hanging out time. People from school, eg: Zhangde Pri, New Town Sec, Temasek Poly. I will lose contact once school is out. I feel sad. Sad that the life span of our friendship is only this much.
Lives that I might have impacted (esp those secondary schools that I was the camp instructor for) I wanna keep the relationship going. Being there for them if they need help.
National Service robs me of my best buddy. But friendship this deep is hard to break, just that it might sometimes fade away. National service also robs me of people that used to have lots of time to hang out together.
I sometimes imagine, what if I were to have a party say for my 21st Birthday. How big a group will it be? For family and friends... who will be on the guest list? who will I invite?
I have many groups of friends. I like to have more than just a superficial level of friendship with each of them. If time permits, if money permits.
To my friends of 20 years: Thank you for always being there for me. You guys have always been simply the best.
3 comments:
i'm like a friend that wont leave you and you cannot get run away from me too! so cool right?
you're seriously more than that of a buddy, friend, brother, cousin. you're all of that combined and more!
hey alvin. i like what you wrote in this entry. because i was also pondering on the same matter. i guess friends do come and go, and close friendships are hard to maintain. but that's what makes best friends/good friends special right? you learn to treasure them more precisely because deep friendships are hard to find.
hugs!
val
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