UNCONDITIONAL FRIENDSHIP.....my priceless gift

Kali ni....aku nak tanya kt korang lg...(asik le tanya aku nih kan....). setiap kali besday korang, mesti korang dpt hadiah kan? kan?.....pernah tak korang rasa dpt hadiah yg boleh buat korang emo....(bukan marah tau).....aku pernah dpt hadiah yg bg aku...tak ternilai dan tak terucap ( dah sah2 bukan gelang mas..sebab emas ada nilai ye....)

Ini disimpan dlm private blog aku..tp aku nak share ngan korang jugak....aku rasa mesti ada juga antara korang yg pernah dpt hadiah yg tak ternilai.....

Today, i received a 'gift' that means a lotttt to me....never think that one day i will received this kind of gift. It priceless......i mean it priceless......it touch me....fell wanna cry.....and all the old memories.....keep playing in my mind like a slot machine.....oh my.....

here is the gift.....

Today marks the 32nd birthday of a dear friend. We knew each other since Secondary School. I don’t remember exactly whether I knew her since I was in Form 1, but we were definitely close when we were in Form 4, the year that we became classmates.

I remember how much she loved the Malay literature. She was the favourite student of our Bahasa Melayu teacher. She used to write me poems, and what lovely poems it were. Of course I still have them, some handwritten, some typed. I will scan them one of these days and post them here. She was very good very stories too, wrote a few very interesting ones (not to mention the long entry in my “Garfield Autograph Book!”). I wonder whether she still writes. Thinking about it, we haven’t talked about her interest in literature at all since we left school!

I wouldn’t go far to say that we are the closest of friends for I am not into fake friendships. That is why when I was thinking of a title that defines this friendship, the word unconditional comes to mind. We love each other dearly, but we both lead different lives although sometimes our fates intertwine. For both of us, it is enough to love each other and care for each other without the burden of “acting” on those feelings. However, it doesn’t mean that we don’t talk to each other or meet up at all. We see each other a few times a year, chats on YM almost every week. Sometimes, we chat every day, other times once a week. Every year we meet for our “annual picnic”, and we spend the day together with the rest of the girls, we exchanged gifts, we take a lot of pictures and we just enjoy each other’s company.

Recently, she fell in love with travelling. She has gone to a few places this year and I must say I love this side of her very much. Her enthusiasm, she is always very excited about her trips, talking about them endlessly. We have never traveled together, but I imagine that she is an exciting company, anxious to explore the cities, enjoying herself silly. InshaAllah, one day we will travel together to a place we both love.

On this day, she turns 32, so much different from the girl in her prefect uniforms fourteen years ago. Today, in all honesty I can say, over the past year or so, I have grown very fond of this woman, unquestionably very different from the girly sixteen year olds love. She is kind hearted and loving. She has displayed amazing strength and faith endlessly in rising above the storms and hurricanes that passed her way. Azie as I know today is a woman of integrity and love, someone I admire and respect.

I make dua for Allah to always bless her with love and patience, courage and kindness. Most of all, I make dua that Allah guide us on His sirat, Siratul Mustaqim.

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(Note: As I was writing the title, I thought friendships should be unconditional, isn’t it. The nature of friendship is unconditional. If it is, then it shouldn’t be labeled as friendship in the first place. Interestingly, this put something in perspective for me. Alhamdulillah.)

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