Wednesday, February 28, 2007

disarmed by a few chosen words...

I just paused for a little while chatting with a good friend of mine, Herbert, via YM right now. It's feels good catching up with someone I haven't spoken with for the longest time. It happens now, when he's in India for business, last time we chatted was when he was waiting for his connecting flight back in Singapore, but face to face??? We're talking about years here... Fueled by my background music, (think Feeder, Death Cab for Cutie, The Fray, Snow Patrol, Mae, Copeland, Daphne Loves Derby, and Keane) the conversation obviously took a quick turn to sentimental talk.

Herbert was one of my first friends in college. We saw each other a lot of times before being formally introduced during LPEP and Orientation. He's also one of the very few (with Melle and Joetech) I was classmates with during my frosh years whom I still call friend until now. After the usual hi's and hello's, this became the focus of our conversation. This all happened while he was checking his email in the hotel and I'm downloading Heroes episodes.

My relationship with my Froshie friends was unstable at best. Our friendship was built upon gimmicks, movies and late night parties...none of which my parents approved of. I ask myself, was I destined to lose much of my friends? Was it my fault that I couldn't hold on to them? Was I being weak in letting one friend ruin my friendship with others? Whatever the answers might be to these questions, I still cherish the friends I DID manage to keep. I managed to survive with them through a lot.

Herbert just told me to look at the friends I have. He referred to them as a "Diamond Mine" and he told me I was in his "Golden List" of friends. It's amazing how much he hasn't changed! It might have been years since we saw each other, but he could still read me like an open book. Knowing how I felt and responding as he deemed fit. I'm really thankful for the friends I have. My froshie buddies combined with my MEM friends. Now who could beat that?! I'm glad I have Mich and Sheena to talk with in the morning and Herbert and Joetech at night.

Who are we to measure ourselves? What should we measure ourselves against? In the end, it seems like our friends know us better than we know ourselves...

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