ME AND MY BIG MOUTH: April 2011

I have two friends I love very much. They are the best people I've ever known in my life. I have been friends with them since we were very young. We did everything together, went to school, answered our assignments, watched movies, and more. We laughed about nonsense things. We talked about the simplest acts. I always felt like I had the best conversation when all of us are just sitting together, without even saying a word. And now, I feel like everything has changed. Where had the best things gone?

I was always closer to the other. Always confiding to her about my problems. She knew almost every little thing going on in my life. And I am the same with her. We have the connection that anyone can see and feel. We are soul mates. Or so I thought. Well, what can I do?

The only constant thing is change.

My other friend is also dear to me. I also share secrets and stories with him. But I never knew we would be this close. Closer than I and my girl friend. Now, I tell him all the things I used to relate to my other friend. So, thinking again, there are still things that break away from the cruel hands of time and change.

And we, my guy friend and I, are a part of those.

It's sad to think that the once unbreakable bond, the once strong connection, can be delimited by distance and time. It can recede to something weaker because of change. And if there is something I can do to light up the flames again...

But no matter how hard I try, change still takes her away from me.

I suddenly have the urge to write something about my friends. And the fact that I want them to be my friends till we finish college, have jobs, have families, have children, have grandchildren. Till we grow old. And die. I want us to be together till forever and a day. That is how much I love my friends.

I met them when we were like 12 or 13. Yea, that was a few years ago. We don't celebrate any friendship anniversary (though I think it would be cool) cause we know that this will last forever so we should not bother counting the years anymore. But still, we are friends for 4-5 years now. I smile when I think about all the laughters, all the tears, all the stories, all the fun, all the adventures that we shared. And I look forward to more of those when our friendship grows old with us.

We are all still young and some of us have parents that do not allow us to have some fun (not really, but yea, that includes me). I have so many things that I want to do with my friends that I still cannot do with them now. But it excites me when I think about the future when all of us are already college graduates and have jobs..freedom! Like..

1. Road trips! Better if not planned
2. Overnights. Yea, we have some once in a while but imagine having to (almost) live with my friends and have an overnight with them whenever I want.
3. Endless movie marathons.
4. Out-of-the-town trips.
5. Yea, out-of-the-country too!
6. Trying death defying things like..zipline! (haha!)
7. Staying in a 24-hour fastfood and pigging out.
8. Food trips/Resto hopping (when we all have the money to go to expensive ones. Poor us (me).)
9. Beach nights where all we want to do is to watch the sunrise, then we'll probably leave.
10. Shop till we drop..dead.
11. Parties! That just includes us.
12. Getting drunk. I don't really drink but I want to experience throwing up because of alcohol with my dearest friends.
13. Going back to places where we once went, like Ilocos.
14. Attending each other's marriages. That would really be sweet.
15. Being the godparents of each other's children.
16. ...

And to think I met them all in high school! I love my friends..