Nostalgia
hello all. :)
I was packing all my stuff at home yesterday and today, clearing out loads of things, and I discovered some pretty interesting stuff. Well, to begin with, it was kind of nostalgic opening all the cute small little packages and reading letters received from friends. Its like travelling back to the time when you were in close contact with them, when we shared crazy (definitely) laughter and screams of madness. Yea, those were the times. Interestingly, my statistics gathered have shown that the most number of such wonderful stuff received were from band-its. yay, go SC Band!! It really rocks to have such great batch-mates, who have endured and celebrated 4 years with you. Unlike classmates and groupings, these group of people stay together as a batch for FOUR years!! Special thanks go to Joanne, Chara and Eunice. Yay, I love you funky people!
One especially heartwarming thing I found... was from Majella Tay Shen Ee! Haha, who else! The cover page of her letter goes like this :
To: Meiyi
4th Table from the Front Door
Front Row (grrrr):)
SCGS
4GY'o6
On the right hand corner she draws a stamp,
on the left she says: "If undelivered, throw in the dustbin"
:))
Let me share this with all of you:
A Story on Friendship
Friend and Acquaintance
There is a difference between being an acquaintance and being a friend. An acquaintance is someone whose name you know, who you see every now and then, who you probably have something in common with and who you feel comfortable around.
It's a person that you can invite to your home and share things with. But they are people who you don't share your life with, whose actions sometimes you just don't understand because you don't know enough about them.
On the other hand, a friend is someone you love. Not that you are in "love" with them, but you care about them and you think about them when they are not there. The people you are reminded of when you see something they might like, and you know this because you know them so well. They are the people whose pictures you have and whose faces are in your head regardless.
Friends are the people you feel safe around because you know they care about you. They call just to see how you are doing, because a friend doesn't need an excuse. They tell you the truth, the first time, and you do the same. You know that if you have a problem, they are there to listen.
Friends are the people who won't laugh at you or hurt you, and if they do hurt you they try hard to make it up to you. They are the people you love, regardless of whether you realize it.
Friends are the people you cried with when you got rejected from colleges and during the last song at the prom and at graduation. They are the people that when you hug them, you don't think about how long to hug and who's going to be the first one to let go.
Maybe they are the people that hold the rings at your wedding, or maybe they are the people who give you away at your wedding, or maybe they are the people you marry. Maybe they are the people who cry at your wedding because they are happy or because they are proud.
They are the people who stop you from making mistakes and help you when you do. They are the people whose hand you can hold, or you can hug or give them a kiss and not have it be awkward because they understand the things you do and they love you for them.
They stick with you and stand by you. They hold your hand. They watch you live and you watch them live and you learn from them. Your life is not the same without them.
