What Am I Thinking (3)? – My Circle of Life
What Am I Thinking? — By Jian Wei on September 27, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Vi-Zanne Ho came to town. And thus, I divorced my macro econs. =D
Vi-Zanne Ho came to town. I took her around. Her face devoid of frown. Oh, the happiness floats around!
They rhyme.
And so do many things in our lives. There is a reason why a circle doesn’t have a starting and an ending point, unless we arbitrary select them- They were never meant to exist. The same principle applies to friends. They come and they go. The departure of one leads to room for another. Look through your Facebook friend lists, how many of them do you still keep in touch with? How many friendships were just not “the same” again? I think we spent too much of our time measuring our worthiness as a friend by weighing the number of friends we still keep in touch with those who we don’t. We analogize them like treasures that we keep in our troves; once they are kept, they are meant to stay, forgetting that they have lives of their own; opaque to the fact that people grow and things change.
I think we accidentally reduced friends to numbers.
An Unflattering Picture of Herself I Must Say =D
Friendship needs more than just effort to sustain itself. It needs an environment; it needs circumstances. And circumstances change. So I am candid that while some friendships will last longer than others, most of the friendships that we have today will fade. We came into this world without friends and we don’t take them with us when we leave. Because they are not my treasures. I do not keep them and vice versa.
If they aren’t treasures than what are they? They are paths treaded, smiles savoured, jokes cracked, pranks played, tears shed, and arguments aplenty and above all, they are my life experiences.
Experiences that complete my circle of life.
For that I shall be eternally grateful.
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5 Comments
though what you have written may be true to a certain extent, but we don’t come and go man. we stay till you kick us out! XD
halo jian wei,how r u???
hehe..i like ur post!it’s quite true..
i think i commit that mistake often, keeping friends as treasures, holding on when it’s unnecessary..
gd insights.
What you wrote is true.
I share the same views as you.
I think I have to brush up on my writing skills to put forth my views the way you do =P
HARLOW JIAN WEI ANG. thanks for that unflattering picture of me…… i shall take my revenge soon when i have the time to blog about my weekend. muahahaha!
p/s: thanks for that awesome weekend though!