How are you?

Has anyone told you that I am getting married on 8 Aug? I am so excited about it, the wedding, the holiday afterwards, the get together time and about going to Bali!

I am sorry you can't there to witness and share our happiness. I am sure you will be smiling and watching over us.

I miss you so much.   

I received an email from an old friend today whom I regarded as one of my closest friends of all time even though we rarely see each other since school days.

I was hoping my email would reconnect us but was rather disappointed. Am I being sensitive as my friend said? The message I got was he now has his own life, own circle of friends other than us. This gets me into thinking about our friendships, how much had really changed since we left school.

We kept in touch for a while, on and off but in recent years we have definitely not crossed paths. Our friends had moved on to have family, worked at overseas and those who remain either work for dad or own a business of some sort. This is the path for a lot of people from where I come from.

Maybe I am one of the lucky one (or not?) who could decide my own life journey. Sometimes I think I am lucky but other time not. This means I don't have a family to fall back on if anything goes wrong. So I have to be careful all the time.

All I want to say is everyone enters a new chapter in life in different life stages. However you don't have to throw away the memories, cut ties with old friends just to prove what you are capable of. After all, we won't be who we are and where we're at today if it wasn't our past - a past with good and bad, happy and sad memories, a past that you and I once shared.

I still believe that good friends remain close at heart despite the distance and differences.