Power Puff Girls No More

FRIEND…

       Have you ever thought about the meaning of this word? We go through life and probably never give it a thought. We just take it for granted. I used to do that, until I learned the hard way. Friends are not always all we imagine them to be.

      As a teenager, I grew up with two close friends, two friends I’ll call Buttercup and Blossoms. Yep! We were known as the Power Puff Girls.Three friends ready to save the world!Funny, huh? But it’s true. That’s what other people usually call us.

      I had gone to university with both of them. We had the same course and we lived on the same dormitory. We were even classmates in almost all our clasess except for one or two.We were together almost all the time. In fact, if one is missing, surely everybody will ask why.

      That was before…

      But like what they say, time passes, everything changes. We graduated, found a career of our own, met a lot of different people and…drifted apart.

     One of them got pregnant and is planning to get married soon (or maybe, is married already!). And the other one? We practically live on the same house but acted as if we are strangers from each other. We barely talk. We barely see each other. Maybe because she is just busy…

      What the heck! Why do I kept on giving justifications to all their actions? It hurts. I hurt. But what can I do? Maybe it is high time for me to accept that we will never be the same again. That Power Puff Girls no longer exist.

       It just goes to show that as time passes, we meet many different kinds of people who become our friends during the period we are developing our own identities. And so, those we meet in our very early life may not be the same ones with whom we will share our lifetime memories. In fact, they may not even be the same ones with whom we will share our high-school and college memories. They become our pals, our buddies, our confidantes in our growing years, but they do not necessarily become our lifetime friends.And I learned to accept this reality.

        If you are anything like I am, when you graduated- settling into a career and eventually, have a family of your own- you lost track of many of your old friends. Perhaps, at times you find yourself thinking of those days and trying to recall the wonderful memories, but it isnt the same. You know you have changed, you are certain that everyone else has as well.

        In essence, what I want to impart  is this: True friends are those who will be your shelter when you are cold, a nursemaid when you are sick, a helping hand when you need it, and a shoulder for you to cry on. And if you are indeed a true friend, no matter what happened, you’ll remain loyal and true.

        And hey!I hate to be a bitch but I can’t help but add. The easiest way to loose a friend is to ditch your pals for a guy or a girl , for that matter. Believe me, this really works!