On his midlife period, the smiles of Edwin reflect his happy
and nice springtime. Whoever he is now, whatever his status, his looks,
his contentment and his personality today were owed how he lived his
youth. These are just the results of how passionate and caring he was
during his youth. Looking at him today, you’ll see the happiness he
enjoys today because he is not alone. He earned lot of friends, back from
old times in school and town, Edwin is rich in friends. True, having true friends are real treasure.
In our journey to our life since we were just children, we
see, meet and know many different fellow children. Our pals in
neighbourhood and our classmates in our elementary school, those are the times
of our infancy and childhood. From our childhood, we never thought
that a friendship is in the making. We may not know anything and no idea
what is happening then that maybe a true friendship is starting to
shape. As kid, we fought, fooled, shouted and took advantage them
until we realized they did not leave us and we need them. But there are
others who have to apart their ways out of time and call of fate. When we
stepped in to our teenage years, as somewhat quite matured during high school
we had a clearer feeling about friendship to seek. We easily connected to
those who are in the same interests as we. It can be good or bad, can be
weird or creepy but they can be okay for they’ll be part of our learning
process. Many have risked to explore and to found their buddies. Lucky
are those who found friendship in early age for they might have a treasured
friendship until they go older and get aged. And Edwin is one of
those. His eyes shall may have any signs
of age but every smiles on his eyes remain genuine that cannot pay with any
amount. How lucky is he to have those same old long time friends while
growing till now, the longer they stay as friends, the more reasons to
celebrate their good times and years.
I was looking a photo album of my friends, there were
pictures that caught my attention and called my interest to stare each.
While looking those throwback pictures during their teenage years, their old
pictures tell stories and show their rich shared moments. And I
can’t help but to suddenly feel sadness and guilt about me for I never had same
moments. While staring those pictures, I learned the importance of
building friends for time will come you will learn how good you are when you
were not dumped by friends. Like Edwin, he is candid and showy to his
friends makes good foundation in friendship.
His thoughtful gestures even in embracing those girl friends earned him
a buddy to love. He and his buddies may
did some outrageous but sometimes in these crazy little things we learn the
meaning of life and our existence that give us the wisdom in life. The typical group of friends who used to
laugh thru good times and bad times, took all night in the street, and gone
wild and weird for fun’s sake. Those
smiles, those great moments, those fun and silliness captured in the pictures
are really moment in times that you cannot go back any longer but you can still
feel the exact feeling on those days. Edwin might have faults, he might
have played the feelings of girls, or maybe hides a dark side, but because he
was a thoughtful friend for sure and true to himself he found the
happiness. Through these and maybe one of these he may have
exceptional experiences. Nevertheless,
those experiences are unparallel, irreplaceable, and invaluable memories that
are fortunate to achieve.
And I suddenly thought that I would have also done the
same. Then I realized how boring my early life was. I have lived my
life censored. If I only knew I will feel regret and sadness for not
doing anything, I wish I should have done escapades, stupidity and childish
things. I think I supposed to experience those prank and misbehaviour,
explore the meaning and sense of life, and did what I really wanted to
do. I need them, now that I feel I am not really fully grown.
Sometimes it is okay to do mistake because it is in there you will know what
you really want and your real calling. In the near future I will become
elder but I feel incomplete. When you are running out of time you will
not able to do what you want to make up because time is the worst enemy of
getting older. I wish I could turn back the times. If I could
live my life all over again, I will do the life lived by Edwin who socialized
in many to gain friends and made the most out of their youth-life.
By
Alex V. Villamayor
February
24, 2016
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