Frappuccinos with My High School Best Friend

It was a lazy Saturday afternoon. I was just at home surfing the internet and watching some Korean dramas online. I received a text message from my high school best friend inviting me to have coffee at Starbucks. So we met. The last time we saw each other was last January together with some of our high school classmates.

It was just the two of us. We talked about her breakup with her boyfriend of almost 4 years and my marriage to my work and graduate studies. We also reminisced about our high school and college years.

Back when we were in high school, whenever we were required to write an essay about how we see ourselves 5 or 10 years from now, we envisioned ourselves with stable jobs and families of our own. Well, we both have stable jobs. But they are not the kind of jobs we envisioned. We are both single. She was supposed to get married next year but things didn't work out with her boyfriend. Me? I have other priorities and not even dating. So the family thing is still uncertain. Our focus right now is to work hard and save so that we'd be financially stable and independent if we get married some day.

It somehow amazes us that we turned out this way. We never thought that we'd experience quarter life crisis. We didn't anticipate that love could be that complicated. We never thought that to be promoted in a job, you need to work really hard and experience pain. We expected that life would still be simple. We were so naive. But even though we are in our mid-twenties, we are still dreamers. We still hope that whatever we wrote back then would still come true. We are living our lives to the best we could and making the most out of what is given to us.

I really had a great time with her. Even if we led separate lives during our college years, we still felt comfortable with each other. We both changed a lot. But the friendship stayed the same. Just like what we said in the middle of our conversation, guys come and go but true friends remain.