Shades of Purple

Someone closed the main pipe in front of my house causing us to have no water supply the whole day. We thought the water supply was cut off when we found out in the evening that it was the main pipe. I don’t know if i’m furious or what. I’m incapable of emotions right now.

Honestly speaking i don’t have that much faith in friendship. Maybe i have gone through experiences that were not so beautiful. I never particularly had a bestfriend. Fortunately i do have some close friends. I noticed that as we grow up our circle of friends become smaller. Come to think about it, it’s not that we had more friends when we were little but as one grows older one learns to differentiate between friends and acquaintances, real friends and "not so real" friends. Children make friends easily because they have one thing that most of us have either lost or forgotten: Innocence. As "adults" being innocent is usually regarded as equal to being naive or not knowing anything. In fact most people’s first impression or interpretation of "Innocence" is not so close to what it really is about.

I find children’s innocence a beautiful thing. Innocence means being pure of heart and mind. A child would not harbour any bad impressions about anyone he/she calls "friend". A child’s friendship is suncere and unconditional. Of course children fight but they forget about it almost as soon as they started it. They resume living the next day as if they never fight before.

Children are also honest. When they don’t like something or someone they say it straightforwardly or at least they would show it through their gestures and expressions. How i envy children. You don’t see children backstabbing or bad mouthing a friend to another friend.

Of course, I may not be right in all my perspectives but sometimes i do find myself tired of (interpersonal) relationships and feel like being on my own for a bit. However, i did learn a few things: adult friendships can also be rewarding and carry a much deeper meaning than a simple childhood friendship. Sure it hurts sometimes and there are times you feel like you somehow don’t have anyone to talk to (although you seem like you have a lot of friends) but this is where you find out who your real friends are.

Now here is the tough part: what if you know who your friends are but you still don’t have anyone to talk to? Turn to your family or your closest relative. When all else fails, I guess I still have one faithful listener: Jesus. Looks like I still have a bestfriend (^_^)