Usual friends come and say "hi,"
True friends go, but never say goodbye...
i made that one up when I was a 3rd year (or was it 4th year??) highschool student. Our teacher gave us a project where we have to make our own friendship quotation, for whatever purpose it will serve us. Anyway, that was the one I came up with. It's not that I utterly believed it then. Come on, it was highschool. The friends i got back then have been with me for more or less a decade (we've been together since kindergarten). I was what some people call a "fossil." I got a gold medal for the loyalty award. Ergo, I don't really know that I will live by that quote when it comes to my friends.
My friends unanimously declared that I have no conception of a cellphone, which is very peculiar since I have had 5-7 cellphones in my entire life. However, I don't really blame them for saying so since I rarely answer text messages and phone calls, (I have changed, I swear!!). You see, BACK THEN, i rarely reload my phone and it being usually on silent mode made it hard for me to notice calls. All in all, I don't communicate via my cellphone much. I don't text people with forwarded messages (unless it is absolutely funny that i am compelled to share it with others), and i only text people when it is absolutely important. I don't chat with friends thru my cellphone (that I do using Yahoo Messenger...it is much cheaper...). Generally speaking, I don't get to stay connected with my friends and know the nitty-gritty of their lives. Such is the case with my highschool friends. Well, that is until this morning...
I was reading the Legal Method cases this morning when I received the text that my HS friends* are meeting at Trinoma today to have dinner and to chat. As I have said earlier, I don't really keep in touch with my friends, and the last time that I saw some of them was four freaking years ago (yep, during our HS graduation). I agreed to come since Trinoma is 15 minutes away and I have no more classes. Besides, tomorrow is a Sunday. i was hoping that someone will treat us, but apparently, we were all paying. Anyway, the agenda for the meeting was simple--eat and chat, and we did just that. The agenda in itself is not grand. We spend a little over a hundred bucks since we are all going bankrupt (or is it just me?). Nothing really special. However, we were still able to have some fun. I guess at the end of the day, it is the presence of those dear to you that really matters and not what you are supposed to be doing. I hope that i will still be able to go out with them during the later part of the semester... *sigh*
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Since I am already writing about my really fantastic interpersonal skills, I might as well let it all out. Besides, I want to make this blog entry and absurdly long one (like the Javellana Case) in order to discourage people from reading it...haha!
Anyway, I feel that I am missing so many things with my block. I know that there is a lot going on right now. People are studying together, chatting together, going to movies together, etc. Lately, I have been absenting myself from all of these. Don't get me wrong. I love my block. They are the best block in the whole UP Lawschool (or so i think.). Kidding aside, whatever negative impressions that I have during my first days in this block are history. First impressions, and not to mention prejudices, are oftentimes wrong.
Oh well, I guess i only have myself to blame. Me and my introvert tendencies. i get them at times. As a matter of fact, i sometimes wish that I could shut myself away from the rest of the world where I won't have to talk to other people anymore. My introverted tendencies give the impression that i am snobbish. I assure you, I am NOT snobbish, I might look like it, but I am not. I just don't get to smile cheerily everyday and greet each and everyone hello. Besides, once somebody engages me in a conversation, I usually revert to my usual smiling face...Ne? i might be a LITTLE bit introverted but i am not snobbish... ^_^V
*note: the above use of term is for classification purposes ONLY. It does not mean that it is only during HS that we were friends... just to be clear...
