Friends

In life friends come, and friends go. Close friends are the only ones who stick by you no matter how bad the situation gets. They are the ones who will jump to your defense if you are in trouble. They are the ones who will not have a second thought if you ask them to cover for you. These are the people who really worth to be keeping in touch with throughout your life time. Friends are really important to me. I can honestly say I’m nothing without them. They are my life.

I basically can categorize my friends in 4 groups (Ok, I know it’s not good to categorize, but this is so so true). There are really close friends, who I have known for ages, who have the traits of the above and basically know me inside and out. Social friends, who are those who I usually hang out with for a drink or two, chill out and catch up with every now and then. Associates, who are those who keep in touch strictly for business purposes, although they could become social friends as well in time. And then there are acquaintances or ‘Hi-bye’ friends as I like to call them, are those who know me and got my contact, but rarely, keep in touch (New Year’s resolution: to make more ‘hi-bye’ friends become social friends). So which of my category do you fall under? ;)

Just the other week, I was doing some cleaning up on my address book on my mobile phone. As some of you know, I’ve been using the same number for the past 8 years or so therefore there is a considerable amount of contacts that I have stored in my address book over these year (approx 350 to be exact). So as I was doing the cleaning up, I sent out text messages to whoever I feel I have not contacted or heard from in years. Well, some of them didn’t reply, but most of them did. Those who didn’t, I figured that they either terminated the line, moved to another country, got abducted by aliens, died or have changed their numbers (who knows...they could been avoiding me as well). Well, I deleted that bunch of people from my address book. Those who did reply? Well some of them still say ”Hi! How have you been? Long time no see. Let’s catch up sometime” which was really comforting. Some were totally blur, “May I know who is this?” which after I help them refresh their memory, “Oh yeah! Now I remember. How have you been?...” So after the clean up, I’m left with approximately 280 contacts. Wow! That means I have deleted about 70+ contacts! But does it matter how many contacts that you have? What really matters here are the people who actually bothered to reply me back and still know who I am after all these years. I always say, it’s better to have a few close friends than to have a gazillion of them. So to the ones who replied me, thank you and I will try to meet up with you one of these days. There are a few appointments made already.

So in all, I really think that it was a really good ‘exercise’ to be cleaning up my phone book. I think I should do this every 2 years or so.