to reach out and offer a hand...

Next to Family and Relationships, Friendships are the most important thing one could not do without. All three are about the same level in importance... one could survive on just one or two of it, though if that one or two are ultimately lost, the person's world would simply be plunged into darkness as if falling thru a bottomless pit.

A person who have close friends willing to be there thru sun and rain, is to be really fortunate. For a person who achieves much in life only to have no one share the joy with is nothing but a hollow shell no matter how resilient. But for a person who enjoys the simple living surrounded by well-meaning friends that think nothing of sharing laughter and tears together is the happiest person in the world. For he who knows not loneliness, knows not emptiness.

To me, these long years have made friendships even more precious. Many a people have said that as one passes through life's stages, the current group of friends tend to change.

I'm really lucky that i've come to know friends at my current stage of life. It may not seem like anything special to most, but for someone who led a forsaken living for years, my new friendships are like a heaven-sent. True friendships are more than i could ever wished for: it was on the trip to Fraser's Hill that, after so many years as far as i could remember, i truly felt that i mattered to my friends... able to share the laughter n tough walks together, thru the sun and rain and finally sit around dinner like we were family. It was a short trip, but one that made me feel i belonged and part of them, which i really missed since sec. sch times. Nothing could ever describe my gratitude and happiness i owed to them. The best i could do is to be all that a good friend could be. And if they do likewise in return, then i am truly blessed.

Of cos, the least i should do is to be happy :) Thanks all.