When true-blue friends meet after a”long time passing”; it feels like nothing ever changed; like we just met yesterday.
Today we met up for brunch with my former office colleagues who through the years became good friends.
They are like family now that we share milestone celebrations together; be it a wedding, an anniversary or a birthday, we can count on each other’s presence.
It was a happy reunion and as always we felt the same closeness and warmth we always have. Helen S. who migrated to Vancouver and currently vacation said:
: Deep down in my heart, I thank God for the blessings of being friends forever. We treasure every moment of being together like this, sharing wonderful moments, laughter, reminiscing the past ……till next year. Well, she has to go back.
The beauty of our get together is sharing our personally prepared food, well..,, except our host, Helen Conti, who used to head the HR of Conti’s restaurant before the family sold the whole enterprise. She ordered their signature baked salmon and chicken barbecue.
There was baked lasagna, lapu lapu salad, pork barbecue, Vietnamese rolls and veggie paella.
For dessert, we had Nathaniel’s buko pandan ice cream and mango cheese cake.
There was also Leche flan as a party favor.
I was pleasantly surprised when our host came out holding the cutest strawberry cake while everyone started singing happy birthday. I failed to take a photo of the cake but they took a video.
I can only say that true friends are hard to find and lucky to have. To quote my friend Nina:
“A real friend walks in when the rest of the world walk out. Let’s not let age change us …let’s change the way we age. Our time is too valuable to be wasted on people that can’t appreciate who we are”.