18 July 2014
A Love Letter to my Childhood Friends
Dear lovely humans,
We met when we were
13; started to bond when we were 14; and from then on, we never looked back. We
are so different from each other, yet we amazingly complement each other
because of our differences, or so I’d like to think.
So here is my love
letter to all of you, on this entirely random and uneventful day.
It gives me goose
bumps that I’m getting cheesy enough to write this, but it also made me realise
that life is indeed happening, I am no longer a student and people I meet are
no longer hard core friends.
I hate that I now have
to second guess everything that people tells me. I hate that I have to explain
myself to people who don’t matter.
The benchmark that you
guys have set for the kind of friendship that can exist in this world is too
damn high. You guys selfishly made yourselves irreplaceable in my life; made me
so uptight about needing to keep our bond under lock and key. Made me afraid to
one day wake up and lose all of this happiness which I never thought I deserved.
And now as we one by
one leave the rank of being a student, meetings are scarce. Twice? Or maybe
thrice in a year? Which make them all the more precious to me.
I miss how unguarded I
can be when we are together. I miss how we act like kids when we are together.
In fact I think I am so deprived of such company that when some nonsensical
topic comes about on our group chat, I crack into the widest of grins while on
board a train amongst a sea of people and risk being secretly conferred as a
weirdo; but I can’t quite help it.
It pleases me greatly
and I can practically feel my eyes shine whenever someone ask about the photo
of us that I’ve placed in my wallet. There is so much pride oozing out of me I
hope the other party did not drown in it. I hope I don’t sound too proud, but I
can’t quite help it either.
I appreciate it
greatly that whenever we decide to have an outing, everyone makes an effort to
come down. It’s not easy to get 12 heads together, but we managed. I’d like to
believe that we managed because we care and maybe, because we love.
I love you guys. There
you have it; it’s now out in the open. There is no taking it back or calling it
a joke like I always do.
And yes, I wrote 400
hundred other words just to get those 4 words out of my system. Deal with it,
like you guys have for the past 9 years and the next 90 years to come.
With love (, chills
running down my spine for being cheesy) and all the best wishes in this human
body,
Me(:
at 23:38
