Never Fades

Glezie is my best friend since I was in grade three. She was new in my school back then and of course, as a typical “stranger” in the place, she doesn’t know anyone. She is quiet most of the time and lonely. I am not saying that as a child, I am that super friendly but I admit that of all fellows in there, I was the first one who approached and have had the courage to talk to her. From then on, our friendship blossomed and we certainly became the closest. I am welcome to their family especially to her mom whom I found very cool and sweet. She is welcome to mine as well. We visit each other’s house especially during occasions such as birthdays. We shared the same passion, in music, we both sing, we are both religious and… well, cute. There are just some differences physically because I have wavy dark hair, and she got golden brown. I have big eyes and she got that of a Chinese. I am super thin and she’s sexy. I think she is also fairer than me. In short say, she looks better than I physically (but I’ve got more brains, hehe!) Oh well, we are also part of the girls scout team, school band (we play lyre and recorder), we are actresses in school plays, speech choir members and church choir members. We are this besties that people can hardly make us apart. If there’s no sitting arrangement, we are seated together definitely or at least next to each other. We eat lunch with our other friends… And we have our theme song… For You I Will by Monica. My favorite moments with her includes… uhmmm… the times we danced ballet to the A Whole New World song, we danced to the Barbie Girl song, the times we sing each other a song and the times we played badminton, Chinese garter and hula hoops.
It was sad when the graduation day came. I know we will go on separate ways already… you know, we are going to attend different institutions for high school. I am going to Saint Mary’s Academy and she’s going to Union Christian College. It was sad. There’s no cell phone yet that time but we have land line. They don’t. I missed my best friend so much that I found it difficult to adjust my high school life without her by my side. Luckily, our brothers were classmates in the same elementary school we attended and they became our channels to continue communicating even if we are far from each other. We exchanged letters… but, I didn’t know what happened. It just stopped. I tried my very best to keep in touch no matter what because I can’t afford to lose my best friend whom I have shared a lot of things. So during summer vacation, I went and visit her to their home. I believe our friendship remains but… I felt there’s a little changed already. If before, I talk about her and she talks about me, now it’s not. We caught each other’s words talking about other people, actually the new people we’ve met in high school previously. It’s not about us any longer. It’s about “them” now. I think that my absence was being replaced by some others she called the UCC best friends. It hurts to know I wasn’t just the only one anymore. She’d found new friends, and eventually, new best friends.
I tried to accept that in life, certain things happen and we need to acknowledge them. Just like way back, in our story, we shared the same world at first. But then we separated and learned to share our world to other people. She found new people in my absence. And I admit I found new ones in her absence as well. I don’t think that it is sad to lose my position in her life as the only one. I think instead that it is great to share my position in her life to others. It feels great that there are so many of us. I realized just now that I’m still the luckiest though, because I am the original.
I kept the letters and cards she gave to me. It was sweet to read them once in a while. I thought that our friendship is worth it even at the present that we totally lost in touch. Glezie will always be a special friend I will treasure deep down in my heart. Like her, I have shared my world to others and this time, I have few friendships I can consider bests too. There’s just this one thing about me and Glezie. We may not see each other anymore, but I’m sure that our friendship “never fades.” Remember, once a friend will always be a friend. Or might say once a best friend, will always be a best friend.

Friends for eternity,
AeraH