Surprise!

I realised that I talk a lot about people in my blog - about the people around me, people relationships, people problems, or simply just talking about myself, as a person.

And I realised how very interwoven are lives are with other people. Whether we like it or not, our lives are all about people. We live with people. Sometimes we live our lives for other people. We invest in people. We rely on, lean on, depend on people. We are influenced and affected by people.

People form the very basis of our lives. We need them. We want them. We can't do without them.

Unfortunately....

Or is it a fortunate thing?

I don't know. I can't quite make up my mind yet.

When I was younger, people relationships to me were so very simple and straight-forward. In fact, I had everything well-defined and worked out.

My best friend will be my childhood friend, and we'll grow up as best friends until the day we die. We will share anything and everything, and will live next to each other with our husbands and children.

Then I have other categories of friends who I categorise into geometric circles surrounding with me in the centre - they consist of the innermost circle friends, the inner circle friends, and finally the outer circle friends.

I will have one boyfriend who will eventually become my husband.

Life will be simple, because I had the job scope and description of the people in my lives are worked out.

But real life is never that simple and well-defined is it?

In real life, I had many good friends instead of one best friend.

My good friend became my boyfriend. Some of my boyfriends became my good friends, and some became people I don't want anything to do with as people. Others went from friends to boyfriends to enemies to boyfriends to enemies to boyfriends, and then, they just suddenly disappear.

I had colleagues becaming my good friends, and my good friends becoming my colleagues.

And then I had friends become strangers.

Really, with people, you never know what you're going to get. When you least expect it, a certain someone, from a certain somewhere, at a certain sometime, surprises you with that spark of friendship, and a spiritual, emotional, mental connection.

Here's to people, and surprises, and friendships...

Here's to W.E.L.O....