Monday, July 9, 2012

a wind that comes and goes


What is done has been done for the best
Though the mist in my eyes might suggest
Just a little confusion about what I’ll lose
But if I started over I know I would choose
The same joy the same sadness each step of the way
That fought me and taught me that friends never say
Never say goodbye
- Friends never say goodbye by Elton John

I always love the feeling when the air breezes through and touches my skin. It’s an unending source of solace especially when the heat has been irritating my nerves. However, its gush may not take too long as it may just happen to drop by and suddenly go. When that happened, I feel I’m at lost again, in the midst of the blazing heat, trying to ward-off the rising temperature I’m feeling within.

The same goes for friendship. It will always be our timeless source of solace and refuge that even if there are dark clouds dimming your vision, a friend  can always find a way to make a light shine through. Sometimes, friends themselves bring the light that you need- their comforting laughs,their unending stories, their awkward actions,or senseless jokes will be more than enough to lighten your somber mood. It’s always amazing how friends can make you feel soaring and carefree. Even if you are feasting on the cheapest meal, its always   the most delighting of all as the thought of having someone to share it with adds zest to the apparent simplicity.

However, that wondrous feeling may not last long as not all friendships are guaranteed to last a lifetime. There will be a number of impediments along the way,some of them are even beyond what we can imagine. People and circumstances may undergo sudden alterations for reasons that will be left unbeknown. You may be left perplexed feeling that you seem to not know the same person anymore. Change will then be inevitable and what’s left if the spark is no longer gleaming are the memories you both shared once upon a not-so-long time ago.

New friends will enter the scene and will bring your life to another height, maybe even to the topmost of it. You may have reached the pinnacle and nirvana with them, but it will always come to a point where a soft but striking voice will linger, and that’s the thought of rekindling the seemingly lost friendship. For a moment, you’ll feel you’re torn in between, so you’ll make a way but it will remain always “easier said than done.”

Then there’s another element called “pride.” Hand and hand with it, there goes ones ego. Why should I always be the ones left to do everything? In the midst of this debacle, you’ll feel that life can be so unfair. If people chose to keep a certain distance from you where are we to go? Are we supposed to run after them or simply resign to the relentless truth that not all friendships are meant to be? If you happen to follow the prompt of your conscience, will it be tantamount to salvaging the friendship? Are all friendships really fleeting, swift as the thunder, winged Mercury that will slip and never return?

The test of genuine friendship then is an incorrigible challenge. Indeed, time, distance, space, and change will always be our toughest opponents. People may choose to put you into oblivion and decide to soar life starting anew even if it means not having you, but that does not necessarily entail you’ll bury the memories as well. Friendship is always something worth unearthing and reviving, just as we hope that be it an unequivocal truth that a true friend, even if left behind or set aside (in the meantime) will at all times remain intrinsically undying, for as the Bible puts it, “A friend loveth at all times.” And if you are truly made to be friends, the hands of fate shall work on revitalizing the dwindling friendship. so let the fire of unwavering love and fountain of unceasing forgiveness remain, and someday soon, for all we know, the friendship will stand resurrected, even made better and stronger, till it’s time to say goodbye to the fluttering heat and emptiness that hovers, for the soothing air of friendship is there to cuddle the once profligating soul.

*** For you

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