My best friend shared a picture we snapped 10 years ago with me, and all I could say was, “it’s really been a long time coming”, and that’s because it really is.
My best friend qualifies as both childhood and best friend even though the starting of the friendship was not so funny because from my side, I never see the friendship grow into anything beautiful, talk more of seeing it lasting up till now, and that’s why many years ago when we were still younger, I would run away from her at every opportunity.
I didn’t see a possibility of our becoming friends and that’s because we were on a very different level, familywise and beyond. My friend’s spoken English right from a very young age was like that of a baby born with such grace to speak beautifully, calmly with no grammatical errors or anything. Her self-confidence was on another level entirely, but me on the other hand, raised in a village, spoke only my dialect, and found it tough to put together some English words. It felt like we were worlds apart.
Somehow, I caught her attention, and she wouldn’t let me go, even though I ran at every given opportunity, she would find me, stick with me and made sure we never separated. Beautiful old times.
It’s been two decades and three years since we’ve been friends, and honestly, our friendship bond keeps growing every day and in ways that I can never imagine in my dreams.
Through the years, I realized we never really fought, but the one time we did, it was because of a man she was unwilling to heal from who obviously didn’t want her anymore.
It was a rough time for her, and I knew that, but because I realized the empathy wasn’t yielding any result, I scolded her like she was my sister, and that did all the work. I remember this same guy trying to move to me saying, “it doesn’t matter”. Funny is, all these happened ten years ago when this picture was taken, and now we laugh, hiss, and joke over it all.
I’ve fallen out of friendships because of distance, but this one keep thriving even as the distance got wider. One thing about her is she would always look for me anytime she’s around, and for that, I am very grateful.
We’ve rejoiced together, hated on things together, and at some point, fought people who hurt us together, laughed together, and it keeps getting better every time.
We are continents apart now, but it doesn’t feel like it because we still catch up on the many things going on in our lives. We communicate, say everything as it is to each other, rant to each other, prayed together, share our wins, and rejoice over every little thing. The distance sure got nothing on us, except that I missed her hugs, and soft laughs.
This friendship boat has been affected by many windstorms, but it keeps sailing, because both of us are willing to make it work. Communication, making an important contribution, thanks to the communication apps that allows us cross-continents.
This is me celebrating the friendship that has stood the test of time, and is still standing. I so much look forward to growing grey hair together and reminiscing on these days without having to be far apart at the time.
Images are mine.
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