Old shoes still fit the best

You know what they say about old friends don't you?

That they're like old shoes. They still fit the best and are the most comfortable.

And I can't help being reminded of that when Ce came over for dinner tonight.

Despite not having seen each other for a long long while, it's like as if we saw each other just yesterday, and just extending and continuing our conversation from the last where we left off.

It helps that she doesn't look like she's grown a day older of course.

I was reminded about how we met and how far we've come. We used to work late into the night together; that is, she worked while I accompanied her and told her stories. Funnily, I was able to relate to her in a way I was never able to relate to friends before that. It's like she showed me a whole new dimension and paradigm of friendship altogther.

The things we use to do...
I told her silly analogies of life and she taught me to see things in a different way.
I made her cry, and she made me think hard about things I didn't like thinking hard about.
We were very bad for each other because we used to argue all the time. But we were very good for each other because we challenged each other in the way we thought and worked and lived our lives.

That was the way it was about four years ago. And that's still the way it is now.

Nevr mind that we're older and wiser and smarter now.
Never mind that we've gone on to bigger better things now.
Never mind that we only see each other once a year at best now.
Never mind that our lives have gone in different directions now.
Some things are still the same.

We still care about each other.
I still try to give her advice that she tries not to take.
She still wows me her perspective of life and things.
I'm still amazed at how different we are and yet how we are the same, in our dreams and desires to do the right thing and not follow the crowd.

Sometimes I wish I was more like her. And I suspect she sometimes wish she was more like me. (She is so going to disagree on this, but secretly she knows it's true! Haha)

And that's the great thing about a great friendship I guess. On our own, we're not that wonderful. But together, we become a better bi-person. We help each other balance out our lopsidedness.

Funnily, we don't appreciate our weaknesses. But really, it's in this our lopsidedness that we are able to find the best friendships.

Here's to old shoes! The smellier they are, the better!