Shirley Posts: Your Friends Resemble You
I am currently preparing a bridal shower for my best friend. As I was inviting some friends on facebook, looking at their pictures, I was thinking how my friends have similar look and similar background somehow. High school was the place where I found most of my lifetime best friends, and we have been through a lot together. We know goofiness of one another, and we grow together (and as we bloom, one by one are getting married). Tie a knot with men of their choice; either out of love or out of time :) Well, the point is I can see what my friends and I have in common.
Then I started to look at my list of dear friends, and I see that there is a pattern somehow. Whenever I visit a mall and see a group of friends walking and hanging out together, I can see their resemblance, too. One group consists of lean girls with stylish attires and polished nails, second group consists of geek guys with average looks and strange laughs, third group consists of big eaters who would spend hours to eat from one place to another, and so on. They are not only similar in term of likeness, but also physical appearances. Have you ever noticed that? It's like high school once again *lols*.
I love my friends. I wouldn't trade them for diamonds. I completely agree with those who said that friendship is like wine. It is. And somehow I can see a part of me in my friends. So, if you want to know how others see you, take a look of your best friend and you might get a glimpse of clue.
PS. Thanks for all of your comments from my previous posts. Blue from China, you are correct! I am a Chinese woman who was born in Indonesia. If you come and visit, you will find many Chinese people like me who cannot speak Mandarin fluently (if not at all) anymore here. Sad, but understandable.
-written in Jakarta, Indonesia
Comments
Hi, sorry for my poor English, firstly. I am an old man and I am trying to learn English, but I enjoy reading some post because I learn a bit from others countries. I have ever traveled abroad, so this place is a window opened to the world. I can see your culture and it is beautiful to have a lot of friends, it is a huge treasure, take care it a lot. Happy new year!!!!!!
Hello to you... That is right the friends shouldn't be treated as an exchangeable article. I learnt it also from my high school time as we were all preparing for the annual exams. During this time of preparing ourselves we didn't see us regularly as i always preferred learning alone. All of a sudden my two other friends joined in other clique to overcome the boredom. In the exams i didn't realise it as i was as busy as a bookworm. After the exams we had some relaxing time and i decided to go to my grandfather immediately to help him at his farm for about a month. You can't imagine this time gap let us get lost. In the new class we changed our seats and the classroom as well. My previous friends had their fun in the new clique and i got more and more deepened in the curriculum for the final run. A time came when we didn't say even hello to each other and somehow it didn't bother me as much as my subjects. And there came the time when slowly others started asking each of us about each one's behaviour to the others even outside the school. This let us think over and to meet and speak about that once mattered us. We just talked about our selfishness without blaming someone else. In these moments of meeting we were more relaxed. Each time we could realise it at each other's face. So we were back on the friendship-track again. We are still good friends, although we do not see us by face years long. Thank goodness there are other mediums to remain in contact nowadays. But the time without having friends made me realise, after i had found them again, that whoever i meet i wouldn't expect the same that i would probably be missing. One could have either an alternative or one would get away with it. Therefore i try to content myself by not repenting for the past and thus compensate myself somehow...
Shirley, a very nice photo!
There is a Chinese saying:" Among any three people walking, I will find something to learn for sure", your blog has a wisedom in it. Best wishes, James.
Hi Shirley, i enjoy reading your posts...for sure not because we are from the same country :) PS. my regards for all of friends who joined in this blog...MerRy ChriStmas 2009 n HaPpy news Year 2010 in advanced..
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