The other day at the convocation ceremony, watching my friends going on stage to receive their honors one by one made me wonder – will we still able to be friends like we used to when we step down from the stage? The answer is hardly.
There are stages in our lives. High school. College. Job. Marriage. Kids. Old age. We change because of these stages we go through in our lives, and our circles of friends change because of that. We befriend schoolmates and teachers during the school years. Once we join the society, our colleagues and bosses become our friends. When two people get married, they become each other’s best friend and when the baby’s born, he or she is the new friend who means the world to them.
Today, not many of us will still have a friend from high school with whom we are in touch on a regular basis. The older the harder it seems. When a relationship has got cold, it is hard to feel the heat again. Once you have not spoken to your friend for years, you may not even bother to say hi to him or her again, be it on the street or on the line.
That is why, regardless of which stage that I’m in now, I will always ring up my friend if I happen to be in his or her area to arrange for a meet up. A gathering can spark things up and restore the warmth a relationship used to have.