"Friends are not really the ones who try to make you a better person. They're the ones who bring out the best in you, without meaning to do so."

I'm greatly impressed. This line has been quoted from an acquaintance's blog who prefers to be unnamed. Let's just title her Miss Mature for the time being.

The world is beautiful. Friends make the world MORE beautiful. Yes, I agree with Miss Mature. It is really difficult to be a solitude. Life would be very miserable. I probably wouldn't have managed to last without these special people in my life. Though my whole primary school life was brimmed with isolation (not unlike Miss Mature), the moment I entered this school, I've decided within a nano second that THEY are my FRIENDS. And one of those friends said this, "You shouldn't regard someone as a true friend that fast. It might take years to choose one." Well, that isn't exactly very wrong, it's not even wrong at all in fact, but I personally think we don't have to take such an elongated period to carefully analyze the character and the personality of the friend and ponder on whether he or she would suit us perfectly. Possibly, different people have different views of friends, of course.

To me, if you care for me and you are ready to help at even the most unexpected times and you are able to lend your shoulder to cry on and you give a listening ear to my problems and advise me to the best of your ability AND I feel exactly the same way towards you and am prepared to carry out all these things for you, we are friends.

I would like to have a friend who spends times of happiness with me, and times of sorrow with me. I would like to have a friend who can understand me and whom I can understand too. I would like to have a friend who forgives me for my mistakes and whom I would forgive her (or him) for her mistakes. I would like a friend who trusts me and whom I trust too.I would like to have a friend who helps to slowly bring out the best in me and teach me to discard the worst in me (not pressurize me) and whom I also blah blah blah. FINALLY, I would like a friend who loves me, and whom i can love with all my heart too.

And, I do indeed have friends. They might not have obtained all these so-called "expectations", but they are still my friends. Why? You might ask. Because, I do BELIEVE that they would, one fine day. Ah.. it would certainly be a very fine day.

A jigsaw puzzle is never complete without a missing piece. Life would never be fully appreciated without these special people. A game of chess can never be played even without a single, simple pawn. Whether how small you are in my life, like a pawn, if you are my friend, you indeed make a huge difference in my life.

Thank you, God. Thank you very much for giving me such a beautiful gift. Friends are indeed... beautiful.