The Power of Friendship!

Friends are of great importance for each of us. Without them, we'll be no better than a spiritual wanderer. During the Chinese New Year, I attended some reunions of junior high, junior college and university though some of these were just a few people.

In the reunion with a large group of people, I found myself nothing to talk about but only listen to what others said about their life, and others' life. I had plenty of time listening to them, observing them, and recalling the personalities they had when they were still senior high students many years ago. Some of my classmates even brought their fimily members to our feast. How time flies! They used to be girls at the age of thirteen to fifteen. But now they are mothers of one-year-old babies. Looking at them, I can't imagine how I will look and what I should act when I have my own children, especially when I am in front of my children. Those mothers have gone through the life that others haven't experienced. They have gone through the stage of marriage, the stage of giving birth, as well as the stage of making a living to support their own family. While they were going through these stages, what was I doing? As they feel the sense of achievement for what they have done (their children, family, and regular life), what do I have for the sense of achievement?

If you ask me the kind of reunion I like the best, I would say, the one with only my best friends. Yes, the other two reunions were the ones that I could be myself. The ones that I could say anything, I could laugh as loud as I could, and I could feel free to be like a student again. I no longer have to wear mask in this kind of reunion. We happily share our working experience (though we all have different jobs) as well as things happening in our life. We exchange our thoughts and provide one another different suggestions. We recall together the time we used to have together and the time we're going to have in the future. In them, I felt I was cared and I care about them, too. We don't contact one another very often but we know we care about one another. We can meet anytime as long as we all near one another. Thus, we met at different areas around Taiwan. I still remember our last reunions were respectively in Hsin-chu. After seeing them, I always feel I'm the luckiest one in the world to have such friends. I believe that we'll be friends for life. Of course, their suggestions and encouragement will be the power for me to go on in my life.

Actually both of them are of great importance to me. Because of them, I would come up with some thoughts that I would never have when I am alone. Because of them, my life became meaningful.


13:46 February 25, 2006.