After a period when I felt I was so down, (probably post surgical blues) I feel I can smile again. I just needed to look around and there were indeed many reasons to smile for.
Foremost, I had this friend who came from down under to pay a visit to her country and to lay her beloved mother to her final rest. I was confined in a hospital when that happened, it was a friend of hers who broke the news to me via a phone call.
Our lives had run parallel, getting married, raising children, losing parents. After a short period of mourning, we tried to bridge the gap of years between us. We talked about our husbands, (she had been widowed twice) our children our lives as young wives. That was where the parallel ended. I continued with my career as teacher, while she settled to being a housewife and mother.
Like her last visit last year we had good times together relieving the past and looking forward to the future. I can smile at us, despite the passing of many years, still giggling over girlish jokes and silly banters. We could not be together as frequently as we would like to, as I have work and she had other business to attend to as well. Yet we managed to share quality time together, going to the cinema ( to watch "Esclipse" and sit beside young people idolizing those vampire actors lol) eating out or sitting and chatting in her hotel room until the late hours of the night. I realized how little the years have changed us, a few lines here and there in our faces betray the years we wanted to camouflage, but still deep inside us we were the same, still nurturing the friendship that surprisingly is still alive after all those years.
Yes it is true. Some good things can indeed last.
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