Soul Friends

Farewells are always sorrowful events for me. While they are so much filled with quiet and unspoken affections, gestures of goodwill and well-wishes, or love or a pain of separation given voice and expression, there is, most times, an urgent desperation that needs soothing but which lacks sufficient attention paid to it.

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Some friends you make, you keep for life. They are usually the ones whom I never think I have room in my life for but who imperceptibly creep into my heart through the little things they do, which really amount to too much when you think about it. Somehow, they are the ones whom you first notice without noticing – that presence that’s always there but separated by an invisible wall of age, life experiences or social standing from you. Well and good, I would say, well and good.

And you don’t even really know what happens but one day after you become friends, you are floored by the realisation that they are really gems, untainted and unspoiled even though they are on the other side of that pretentious wall that you thought kept you a safe distance away.

Suddenly, you know why that wall is there. It’s not God who placed it there. Why would God keep such a treasure to behold away from his own child?

I wonder why it took me so long to finally see the vision that exploded into my life. The obstacle wounded around us demolished, the distance that kept us at bay crossed – all at once that spans the magic of time in this moment and that stretches right through to the end. And I have a friend.

And the wall finally completely crumbles and like an awkward child caught in the act of spying or snooping around, I find myself exposed raw to a new friend.

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Each and every journey in life, made individually or at the same time, is always different even if they are similar in taste and texture. Even if you’re a seasoned traveller and partake in many adventures with the familiar group of companions, you sometimes find yourself accidentally falling across a threshold with one or two that leaves you dazed and delirious all at once.

You will know it when you find a soul friend.