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February 11, 2009
Friendship
Valentine's Day is round the corner. Since I have no romantic love life to swoon about, I shall write about the friends I love instead.
One of the important things I have learnt to treasure very much are the friends I have made over the years and I am thankful to my friends who have helped me keep our friendships going. I truly appreciate my friends who made efforts to meet me despite their busy schedules and my friends who make the extra effort to fit themselves into my schedule because of my constant traveling. I thank those of you who did not give up me on me even when I spent too much time working in my old job and helped keep me sane.
I truly believe that friendship is a two way street and the traffic only keeps going when both sides put in the effort. On this note, I was very disappointed in one of my good friends who decided to put the red light on our friendship. Maybe I am being a little hard on him now but well, I am still pissed. Basically, this particular friend has been deciding at the last minute not to turn up whenever a meet up has been arranged. He is a very good friend and there were many times when he had given me support and advice when I needed those. However, there are only that many times I can forgive a person who repeatedly stands me up, good friend or not. At times when I have nothing better to do, I do wonder about what caused this change in him and feel sad about the state of our friendship. However as another good friend commented when he stood the both of us up last weekend, enough is enough, if he does not even want to bother to turn up then fine. Yes, that is fine, ending with a LARGE full stop.
In a really bizarre way, I must thank this friend for repeatedly standing me up. In his anti-social behavior, he made me realise and appreciate my other friends more. The ones who are always there, who listen to me whine ALL the time (yes, I KNOW I whine ALOT but I still do it), who get excited about meeting whenever I am home, the ones who write to me and ask me how I am when I am away and the ones who make time for me despite having a full plate of activities etc etc. For all these precious friends of mine and all the little things you do to show that you care too, I am thankful. :c)
Posted by Fatgirl at February 11, 2009 01:20 AM
Comments
Happy Valentine's Day old friend! :)
Posted by: dimsumdolly at February 11, 2009 09:22 AM
hope you had a good friendship day, no less ...
Wen Ee was visiting MN with her husband this weekend. we had brunch yesterday and she tried one of the while Raffaellos you gave me -- i think i squashed them during the flight! oops.
hope you might visit me here, too! =)
Posted by: tiggie at February 16, 2009 04:34 AM
We all have our different lives to struggle with, and though we don't get to meet often, we remember each other, and the years of friendship.... =)
Posted by: monoceros at February 21, 2009 09:26 AM