Friendship -- in a fast-paced world we live in, have been
stereotypically taken as just something that is defined as people having common
likes and interests, and when those interests are over, then it’s ok to leave
without notice. But there is also this type of friendship that you’ve never
thought of lasting, but then you just realized how much you’ve grown together
without really trying hard.
Bianca and I, though we are as normal as all the other
people in the world, we’ve recently laughed about something really simple but
amazing at the same time.
In June 2008, Bianca bought a pair of friendship bracelets
(yes the one in the picture). She planned to give it to me on my 20th
birthday. However, we were too consumed with our Nursing Licensure Exam, taking
the exam itself and then waiting for the results, that she stashed those little
something and totally forgot about it. (background story, we passed the board
and we are both RN’s now but took a rather different path). In our four years
in the University, we have been almost inseparable, especially on the last two
years, thus people seeing us still together today give us a rather sweet smile
while gesturing “hey you two are still inseparable”.
Okay, so years passed by, if she remembered it correctly,
she saw the bracelets again in 2010 and planned to hand it over to me, but
although we see each other every once in a while (yes, there were also years in
between that we have been both distant, physically and psychologically haha),
she never had the chance to give the other bracelet to me, so there, the keepsakes
lay hibernating in one of her drawers.
End of 2014 came, we started catching up, a lot had happened
in her life, mine as well. She’s been to many places in the country, I’ve been
outside for a while then lived in another city, but I’ve finally came home and
since last December, we were more inseparable than we’ve ever been before. She
comes to my house every week for Sunday services, we sometimes meet in the city
in between weekends for a cup of coffee and a bucket of stories (which never
run out, it’s amazing really haha).
So yeah, two weeks ago, the bracelets showed up. Now ready
to be given, she brought it last Sunday (8/2/15), they looked very new, Bianca
said so herself, “they are as if I just bought them yesterday.” Seven long
years have passed, but these treasures proved it that they were worth it, meant
to be given to a friendship that stood through the test of time; distance,
space, emotional indifference, and economic highs and lows. Our story is a love
story in itself, of sisterly and unconditional love which we do not have any
intentions whatsoever to end.
Your stories may be grander than ours, and you should know
better than we do. Thus, with high hopes and prayers, may this kind of
friendship flourish and last for life.
To Bianca, thanks for
being always there, for not giving up on this friendship, for being my sister,
for loving me no matter what, and for always having my back. God Bless you...
-xoxo June <3
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