F.R.I.E.N.D.S

There is not a single person in this world that is without a friend. Everyone has someone by their sides. No matter what color they are, how bitchy they are or how sickeningly perfect they are. They always have friends.

That is why we can never live through life without friends. Friendship is something to be cherished. Even more than a lover. Why? Because a boyfriend or girlfriend....well...they come and go. But Friends...they will always be by your side.

Through thick and thin. Best friends are hard to find. Friendship isn't made in a day. It's built slowly by trust. Just like an old oak tree. It grows strong and steadily for years and years to come.

Just like my mother and her best friend Aunty Jennifer. They've been friends since they were 16. I've sat through their stories of how they met, and how they went on dates, how they cried on each other shoulders when they broke up with their boyfriends, how they smiled at each other when they got married and how they shared tears of joy when their first born was brought into the world. Of course they bicker and argue, but in the end, when problem arises, the first person they will call is each other.

Who in the world would know you better than your best friend? She's the one who you'll go to when you get your heart broken or when you had a quarrel with your boyfriend. She'll be the one who you share coffee with, bitching about the girl who stole your boyfriend.

But sometimes, you're blinded by the gift of friendship. Especially when your head is buried so deep inside another guy that you start to neglect your best friend. Yes...sure, at that time He is the most important thing to you. The one that makes you happy...and blah blah blah...the whole shit.

You'll start to ignore the sadness in your friends eyes when you reject her calls or her invitation for a drink. You'll not hear the soft sigh she makes.

Then BANG! When the idiotic fool who made your head so fluffily high in the clouds breaks your heart, you run crying to her. You whine and cry about how he's an idiot and how much it hurts that he broke your heart.

You go on telling her that nobody loves you or cares about you as she gently strokes your hair and listens to your cries patiently.

Little by little, you become unblinded and then you'll finally see that even though there are many guys who broke your heart, there's one person who will never hurt you and that is your best friend.

When nobody is there to catch you when you fall, or to hold you when you need someone, she's always there. But most of all, when you feel that there isn't anyone who loves or care about you, all you have to do is pick up the phone and dial your best friend's number. Because, you'll then realize how lucky you are to have her in your life. By your side.