Friends- Old & New

My schoolmates have setup this email-group, where it is for keeping up with the hapennings of everyone regardless of distance. Some of us are in the country, some out of the country, some has announcements to make and even work as a sounding board to some. This is the closest that we have been since leaving school in 1991. Some of us have not even met since then. Even though we've organised annual gatherings, impromptu teh tarik session, buka puasa or sahur session, its hard to gather everyone together and by the virtue of technology, the cyberspace is the only place where people could keep up with the latest happenings either through email or IM/YM.

A few friends have goods news to share - eg addition to the family, new job at a new place, impending wedding and also the sad news - eg. loss of a child, parents, siblings. A few has some issues pertinent to life to get second opinions from, maybe a free medical consultation from 'in-house' doctors, share (KLSE) tips, networking, which business to venture in etc. etc.

In retrospect, I have been pondering about what constitute a friendship. Imagine someone whom we are close to at one particular time could act / feel like a stranger now. Things that were in common years were just memory kept in the annals of time. And somehow new friends could felt like they have been your best friend forever.

I read somewhere that a good friend would stand by you through thick & thin but a great friend would go through it with you. So to all my friends of the past, present and the future, lets cherish what we have.