This is not a love story

One night, a few weeks ago, I was getting sad thinking how I don't have friends who'll tell me "get ready, we're going somewhere. we'll pick you up." Mainly because I live in Malabon—which is really far from almost everywhere. Just ask my friends and they'll tell you how it's basically the other side of the world, away from where the magic happens. And now, Cavite, this is definitely even farther. Then I thought, why am I being sad? Maybe it's the spontaneity of that that I'm craving for. Then I realized, I have amazing friends, why am I looking at the thing we can't do? I have friends who are always willing to wait for me no matter how long my travel time is. I have friends who would call me just for random chitchats. I have friends who eats breakfast for dinner with me. I have friends who ask me to come over just because. I have friends who listens to me, even to my nonsense. I have friends who would gladly read the menu to me over the phone or send photos of it (even though I could just google it) so my food would be served already when I get there. I have friends who trust me enough to tell me anything and possibly everything. I have friends who I could have so much fun with until our stomachs hurt from laughing. I could go on and on to tell you more of the things my friends would do, and by the time I'm done, you'll probably ask me, too: what was I being sad about again? 

When I started writing this, I said this is not a love story, but maybe it is. It's definitely not the romantic kind, but it is love. It's the love that sometimes we forget to acknowledge because we're so busy chasing our idea of love. We all want to find 'the one', our 'great love', a 'true love' or whatever you want to call it that we tend to forget that other forms of love exists. It's so easy to get distracted by the things we don't have or the things we don't experience that we forget to appreciate what we have. There are a lot of quotes about appreciating what we have before it becomes something that we had, but we rarely take it to heart until it actually happens. I don't know where I'm going with this, but I guess I just want my friends to know how much I appreciate them. I love you all, but I think I love those who have gone to Malabon for me a little bit more. Haha! 

It's a random day, but why not tell your friends how much you appreciate them today?