I woke up very early today to attend a brainstorming meeting with friends who are owners of this consulting company. The meeting was set for 8:30 am, of course I was late (I arrived 9:30 am), having slept at 3:00 am earlier. It was a very productive discussion, as always with this group. The company is bidding for a pull-out-all-the-stops sales kick-off event of a big multinational manufacturing company (an existing client but only for training programs, not yet for sales kick offs), and they needed to come up with grand, never-before ideas today for a Tuesday presentation. These ladies have been my friends for the longest time -- 11 years to be exact. I met them during their kaladkarin days, and I've seen them evolve from kaladkarin girls to dutiful wives and EQ-full moms. Now, I'm the only kaladkarin girl left in the bunch. I remember our resto-hopping adventures in Malate during its heyday, in Rockwell when it became the hippest place in town, in Eastwood when it was mostly a vast parking space with a sprinkling of novel eating establishments. We loved to eat, we loved exploring dining nooks and crannies in the city, and we never scheduled our gimmicks (we called them "spontaneous combustions"). I kind of miss those days. Nowadays when we get together, I feel out of my league when they start talking about little and big schools, the taming of their kids, linen, household matters. And of course, there's always the need to get home early because they need to catch their kids awake so they could spend quality time.
Things have certainly changed and they will continue to over time. But one thing hasn't and won't ever -- they will always be the three girls who know me best outside of my family, like an extended set of big sisters. We'll probably still be effortlessly yakking and bantering with each other even when we're all old and gray -- which is a long, long, long, long time from now, I must say!
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I know exactly how you feel. But mine is different because I don't have any friends who are married or have kids. I guess it comes with the fact that a lot are living in different countries now, or preoccupied with their careers and relationships (tsk tsk bros before hoes as One Tree Hill characters say). People are moving in different circles already but you're right, it doesn't change the fact that at least we're all the same shape and made of the same stuff. And nothing, whether it's civil status, culture, or age, can change what we share.
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