#DeepThoughts/Advice

As time past, the people you mix yourself with are bound to change. Your horizon broadens. Your view of the world changes. People may come and go in your life but true friends, they stay forever. No matter how little you see them, or how Lady Luck is never on your side, making it seem impossible to spend some time with them, they still manage to keep in touch with you and you with them. They still remember to wish you for birthdays and important dates. But even when they don't, it doesn't necessarily mean that they have forgotten about you.

If you look through your life from the day since you were born, weren't you always surrounded by people? Be it your parents, your uncles and aunts, your cousins, your friends, or even your neighbors! Even when you're alone with no one around, you still have the big man, God, by your side. So it's safe to say that no one has truly been alone before.

Life is like that. We need people that care about us in life. We need company. Although at times, life may seem a bit (or very) unfair when friends we thought were close to us backstabs us. When all those we thought we trusted ends up leeching on us for other reasons. When we get hurt by our loved ones.

So it is wrong to say that we do not need friends in our lives. It is wrong to believe that we can go through our lives by being strong and relying only on ourselves. It is wrong to isolate ourselves from all those that are trying to help us. It is just wrong to think this way.

Trust me. There have been many a times when I have felt lonely like an outsider, when I was excluded from group activities (my close friends at that), when as hard as I may try, I just can't seem to gain acceptance from someone. It is so hard to connect to people with the same wavelength and to feel comfortable with people I really want to be friends with.

No matter. I am glad that I have people in my life that I can actually call my good friends. I am glad that I have an awesome God that loves me for who I am. I am glad for my loving and caring family. I am glad that I am blessed with so many opportunities in life. I am just glad for the gift of life itself.

On a side note, this is totally irrelevant with this post, btw, but
“I'm a different kind of crazy. Will you fall in love with me?" (C. Sze & X. W. Tam, 2014)
~Memories of Penang with crazy (but totally amazing) friends. :)

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