It is so quiet that I could hear the fan blowing the
still air around my small closed room in the hostel creating a soothingly rhythmic
sound. The fluorescent light from my table lamp is glaring at my metallic
bottle giving me a reflection of myself. Unable to express my feelings, I
kept staring at it and drowned in deep thoughts.
Friends.
Just a simple seven letter word which has shown me all
seven colours of rainbow.
If I am to thank God, I would definitely thank him first
for giving me a beautiful family and second for giving me family-like friends.
Sisters and brothers by heart whom I am so blessed to have.
“Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are”,
goes the saying. It is indeed an undeniable fact that most of our actions,
thoughts and words resemble our friends. Partly, because we grew up holding
hands and walking along the corridors of our schools, sharing every piece
ourselves to the one beside us. From our favourite meal to our latest video
game. We never spared anything. For every one of us, our childhood friends bring
the best memories and have left footprints in all our hearts.
If one would ask, I would definitely say I grew up with
a twin sister who barely looks like me and whose mother tongue is Chinese. When
love was the language; skin colour, race and religion didn’t matter. Till this
very day, it still doesn’t matter to the both of us.
As I grow up, however, the meaning of friendship tends
to take a different definition. A pretty disappointing one. I entered college with
dreams of forming the best five and going for summer vacations just like in the
movies. Then, I come to realise, forming three musketeers itself is a big deal. Because like spider web, the web of friendship is also easily broken by
ego, jealousy and selfishness.
Fortunately, as the days passed by, the crystals stayed
whereas the salt dissolved away. These few precious crystals are the ones still
bringing out the beauty in me, helping me to shine with their reflections, cutting
every edge of theirs to give me the best shape and covering up my darkness with
their brightness. Like DIAMONDS, these people are expensive, rare and precious
to me.
Comments
Post a Comment