One True Friend

So yesterday I had a long conversation with my best friend in college. We rarely talk via video call because of time difference, she is in New York while I am in the Philippines and also I was busy with the kids while she was busy with her work. But when we find time to talk, expect it to be long, I think we started talking at around 9 in the evening up until I notice it’s already midnight. We didn’t notice the time actually as we were both busy catching up with so many stories. Talked about different issues, our old friends and anything that we can talked to. I just missed her a lot.

Meeting in College

My best friend Janifa and I has been friends for more than a decade. We became friends during our second year in college. We both belong to different section during our first year and on the the second year we eventually became classmates. I never thought we would be really close since we both have different sets of friends. She was also the extrovert one while I was introvert. You see we have opposite qualities yet we clicked. Opposite really attracts right? I remembered back then, during enrollment time, I would always came late at school because I live far from the school. I lived in Marikina and our school was located in Manila. Because I would always came late, the long queue in the registrar office during enrollment process would always welcome me. That happened to me a lot of time and waiting for your turn was really frustrating and annoying. But eversince I meet my friend Janifa I never had to wait for long. Unlike me, she was living with her relatives which was just a walking distance from school. Since that was the case she always finished her enrollment early. When we became close to each other, she would always reserved a seat for me, so that by that time I arrived at the school I didn’t have to wait that long. Our friendship continued until our last year in college. We were really inseparable by that time that we even took our on the job training at the same place. During our last year too, I would always go to her place and we had a series of sleep over. After graduation, we were together looking for jobs, even though she didn’t need it since she was leaving the country anytime soon that year.

Long Distance Friendship

She went to New York in 2008 and I was very happy for her because she married the love of her life. We never stopped getting in touch even though we were both at the other side of the earth. I would always received an overseas call from her from time to time, during her 1st year in the US just to keep me updated with her new life. It took years before she came back to the Philippines. And I was very happy of course, because she finally met my two kids. By the way, she was a godmother to both of my kids. After her first visit, she came back every year. She would always meet us and treat me and the kids well. The last time we’ve seen each other was in 2019. She was also here in 2020 but because of Covid, we didn’t met up. Now two years had passed and I am missing her more, she was also hoping she could go back next year and according to her she will stay long for around 6 months in her next visit. Ah I can’t wait to meet her soon.

Even though we’ve only talked very often for the past years due to busy schedules, Janifa was so thoughtful to me. She never forgot to give me a birthday and Christmas card every year via snail mail. Even in these modern times, with all the emails and messengers available, she still prefer sending those cards to me. She even sent me a postcard of Eiffel tower when she went to Paris last time. I may not have a lot of friends but who cares, a single one who was someone you can lean on and would never leave you specially in times of need was more than enough.

Final Thoughts

We always had that one special friend in our life. That one true friend who will never let you down and will continue to support you no matter what. He/she will be the one to stay, when everyone seems to be leaving you. I am glad I was able to meet one and I hope you are too.

Thanks everyone for getting this far. I am out of topic to share so I hope you can bear with this. If you have something to share about your best friend too, please feel free to write it down.

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