Friends

" So no one told you life was going to be this way..."

When it comes to making friends, I'm usually not the guy to ask to.

If you read my previous entries, you can tell I'm not much of a people person.

Though, as "friendly" as I am, I am grateful that I was given luxury of great friends to see me through my ups and downs.

In primary school, I had this friend, his name was Arifin I think? He sat next to me for my first three years of school. He was peculiar and a bit odd but he was a good friend nonetheless. He was warm and funny and it was kind of hard not to like him. One day he moved somewhere else and that was the last I've heard of him.

I even forgot how he looked like..

Then, I made new friends. Most of them were my classmates, and if I were to talk about all of them, it would be one very long post. So I'm gonna talk the one I was fondest with. His name was Zulfahmi, I would call him Pami. We would walk to school together every morning, and walk back home together every afternoon. He was a top student at school, always competing with this one girl for the number 1 ranking for each tests and exams. He was the head prefect. To tell you the truth, he was a bit bossy. Maybe being the head prefect has that effect on you. But one thing for certain, he was loyal, and I can count on him to catch my back. After primary school, he went to a boarding school, and I guess we just kind of grew apart. We did meet on several occasions but it was hard to recapture the friendship that we had.

In secondary school, I made a circle of friends that maintain still even to this day. They were my classmates, and even though by the third year most of them had left for more prestigious schools. We still keep in touch and regularly hang out with each other, all 10-20 of us. They became my stable group of friends. Since most of us live in close proximity of each other it wasn't that hard to come over and have a chat.

After finishing secondary school, I was drafted into National Service. One of the first friends I made there was Bob and Fahmi. The three of us stuck together for the whole three months of National Service. It was a pity we lost contact after that.

As of now, I'm currently studying In SIEU and I'm making new friends here as well. 

You could probably tell from my tone, that I'm not that eager to talk about friends. The tricky things about friends are, they are not your family. They are not obliged to stay loyal to you, which means they can leave anytime they want. I try to not be too attached to friends, so it will be easier to see them leave.

In this, I reminisce the words of Toru Watanabe, the character from Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood