____T.H.E. .P.A.S.S.

____On the wane...

There was once I was a staunch believer that friendships made in secondary school were made to last. And every December after leaving ZHSS, my NPCC friends and I have made it a point to meet up at least once, no matter how busy our schedules are, no matter what commitments we have decided to uptake during the course of the year. And because of the fact that I rarely get to see some of them, I have learnt to look forward to such gatherings. I am thankful for the troubles that the "organisers" of such outings had to go through to make the outings possible.

*Give me a moment to sort my thoughts*

However, I have come to realise, over the last couple of years, that maybe some of us within the group are starting to take these efforts for granted. Not only are they unappreciative of the efforts, they are also unwilling to make efforts to help out in the organising. Sounds fine to you? No, it isn't. Such behavior is the basis of the fact that maybe the "everlasting friendship" is on the wane. It is the stepping stone for friendship decay. For this particular group of originally rather closely knitted friends, the seeds of nonchalance were planted and its growth till today have now bore fruit. The fruit today is that the so called friends have a reluctance to meet each other now.

I am not angry with anyone. I am not pointing the finger. I am admittedly, guilty of this sort of behavhior to a slight extent. The depressing thing is that, there seems to be no way of salvaging the situation. Maybe the best way is really to let go. Let those and only those who have the will and heart to carry on salvage the friendship.

I think this is the best conclusion - best way to deal with the problem, for I know that the organisers have had a really hard time with everyone pressing them for an outing and yet not willing to offer some ideas or help.

*The following thought is one which I felt that I should include here somewhere. It sounds out of place and weird for a conclusion, but I'm placing it right below all the same.*

The strange thing is I look forward to every holidays, especially December to meet up some old friends. The stranger thing is that towards Christmas, I suddenly got the inclination of not meeting anybody. To help you identify the feeling I feel, I would say it is like showing the somewhat ordinary looking report card of your results over the whole year to your parents.

Currently Feeling Like: Ronaldo's (Real Madrid) ACL tear.

---------------------------------