Friendship for keeps?

   What does real friendship stands for? Real friendship has a lot of meanings, and that meanings opposed in one another depending on how it was built. It doesn't have similarities, doesn't have rules and regulations, and most of all, it doesn't look always in the good side of a person. It is an acceptance, whether we're ugly or we look like a an angel, we're clumsy or almost perfect. Real friendship is giving, it sacrifices a lot in order to built it stronger, it shed tears, share laughs, keep secrets. It is criticizing, it points out wrongs and do it right. Real friendship is not just a word, but a great bond of hearts, minds and thoughts.

   At one point in my life, I've had friendship and I thought it was a real one. We made a good companionship, we used to stick together, " kung nasan ang isa, andun ang lahat". Picnics, laughters, hang-outs, chats..happy mem'ries that seemed would last. I never expected it would end soon, it was almost perfect. We understood each other, we have a lot in commons: atitudes, likes & dislikes, problems with family. Then, I woke up one day and it was changed..over. It hurt me a lot, I was confused and it took me a long time before I managed to keep going. In those times of sorrows and emptiness, the people which I thought the least to turn on to, we're the ones who accompanied me, they cheered me up