Ann blogs: Friends

I have always give a thick bordeline line between friends and acquaintance. It's because whatever we want to do with those words, they are completely different. A person's definition of a friend defines his/her character. Or it's the other way around. People's definition of a friend determines how many people he or she is with most of the time, and what degree of relationship she has with people. Some people are comfortable with friends who are a multitude, a barkada whom he could always hang out with; some are enjoying the company of few people, in some instance a single "bestfriend"; some are comfortable with the friendship that blood brothers and sisters, or blood relatives give. I have been in these moments, but then I realize that as we get older, we will tend to search for few persons who will best give us the contentment of their friendship. When I was in highschool, I used to be groupee. Having been "sikat" as a highschool teener, I really had to interact with not so few people and mingled with them. It was such a good experience because I had had so many friends and acquantance. But then as time passed by, only few of these friends and acquaintance had have contact with me, and eventually the forming relationship had been broken. After so many years, what remained are my real friends. Some managed to have continuous contact, some we had not communicated for a while but then the lines open and we meet again. I think real friendship can be best define as something that "manage to stand the test of time". Friends may not be there with you in your most trying times but then when you meet again you never feel any stranger in them, and will just say "Siya ba, bakit magbabago yun?." It sounds funny but I guess even if your friends change without your knowing, you'll just see them as someone unchanged who used to be the same person you have known before when you meet again. It just means to say that there's no perfect friendship as there is no perfect relationship. Fights and misunderstandings are there and if you manage to stand your friend's imperfections through time, then you can consider yourself a real friend.