For My Dear Friend

Back in the primary school days when asked to write an essay,I was very calculative as to how to frame my essay paragraphs. I remember writing an essay about my BEST FRIEND back then. Lying flat on the wooden floor,chewing the tip of the pencil, I planned my essay: first paragraph will write about the size of her family and their names;second paragraph will write about her physical description; third paragraph will write about the things we do together that makes us best friends.

Back in those days, friends were more of playmates. Our immediate neighbors became our best friends albeit the differences in age. As age burdened one with more school work, the classmates became best friends. Finally creeping into adolescence, the need to maintain secrets of heart and its business we then start befriending someone who shares our interest and can maintain the locked secrets well in one's heart.

When I sit down to write about my friend, I suppress a wicked chuckle that lies buried at the base of my vocal chord; we are so different yet we are the best of friends and have been since our teenage days.

She is skinny and I'm fat(hey! maybe we can qualify for a female Laurel and Hardy duo). She is petite rat while I'm a gigantic dinosaur. She is highly learned I'm semi qualified. She has the brains while I have the heart. She is brave while I'm a chicken. She is like the altar in her house while I think I qualify for the doormat role. She is looked up by everyone around her while I'm never looked at(sigh!).She is a world different from what I'm and we both know it but whenever things happen around us, good or bad, we know the first person we think of is each other to share it with. We both know that we shall never judge each other no matter how sinfully evil we become. It amazes me how two people so different can understand each other so well.

Dear friend, on this special day( though we need no reminding) let me tell you I know I can be me with no tinge of embarrassment with you. When I die, I shall live all my blessings and my curse in your soul for we may be different but we have our fate entwined like one soul. I would never have been able to see the dawn of many of my dreadful times had you not been there with me, supporting me with just a assurance that you know what I mean. I would have exploded unable to contain my happiness in my heart had I not got your heart to share it with.

My joys have doubled and my grief lessened only because I had you as my friend. I'm lucky YOU are my friend.HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY!