A very special friend...

I think for a starter of this blogworld, this post would actually be too late since my last one. I had actually drafted a number of articles yet I did not have the confidence and the courage to post it here. But surely, I will have them here in due time.

Anyway, I should not be writing anything today because I am jam-packed with reports and deadlines. One client just ended its fiscal year and I expect a lot of work to be finished. And since the month just ended as well, the compliances to the government agencies and other statutory reports endlessly tire me out.

But today is a special day for me.

It is Jehson’s 26th birthday. And this post would basically be about him and how we became friends. Special friend as I personally classify it.

Jehson is straight and I can attest to that. He is one year younger than me. In high school, I never had a memory of any sort of acquaintances with him. But he claimed that he has seen me one time when I went to his dormitory to talk about something to his helping brother (this is what we call our dormitory prefect). This I could not really remember. Nonetheless, we, together with another friend Efren really got close when we worked together for a company in MEPZ. I was actually hesitant to make friends with them because we had no common interest. Both of them liked basketball a lot while I would rather clean the house and do the laundry. But because we came from the same high school and were instilled with the same values, we eventually became good friends and almost inseparable.

We had the same working shift thus we would always be seen together. Although we did not live in the same house, at work we basically do things together. We ate, slept, took illegal breaks, went home together. On weekends, we would always catch the latest movies in the malls. We would even go to church together. I was so used to being with them that one time I was certainly upset when they did not tell me that they have eaten midnight lunch already. I was waiting for them for about half an hour and my starving stomach prompted me to just go to the canteen. There I found out that they have finished already and were about to take a nap as we usually do.

I felt I was betrayed. I felt I was left alone. I felt lonely. And for almost three months, I did not talk to them. It was my way of taking revenge. I wanted them to be bothered of why I was behaving that way. At the time of course, I did not know that they were affected by my absence. My officemates noticed the emptiness and loneliness in me. I would by then eat, take a break and go home all alone. While I thought that I was taking my sweet revenge, it was actually I who was hurt the most. I was sad and down without them. I was so incomplete and had even a couple of sleepless nights crying. My heart wanted so much to reconcile already but my pride held me back from doing so. Until my officemates called Jehson and Efren to our area and had us reconciled. Words of apologies were softly yet wholeheartedly spoken. We shook hands and in the next few minutes we were again together, stronger, as if nothing happened.

Now, after almost eight years since we resigned from the company, I could say that we still remain the best of friends. We all have different lives now. Efren is now married and is trying to find success in Isabela. Jehson, is now a successful seaman traveling around the world earning millions of dollars. I, on the other hand, am working for a small accounting firm here in Cebu. With everything that is and will be happening to me, I would forever be grateful that I found these two great individuals whom I again, personally classify as special friends.

On his birthday, I texted him that I wish God grants everything that his heart desires. And he replied “Wow! Thx.hoping so much. Mao pa lng jud pglrga nmo gkan new york 2 west Africa 1port dn blik n sad dre us.rgardz ko dha. Hehehe”

He never fails to text me back whenever I text him whether he is in or out of the country. The latter depends of course if he is on land, I mean, not in the middle of the ocean. And this makes me feel I am someone special too.