I was just indulging in a strange mental exercise the other day.

I was going through my list of friends, and trying to imagine how I would feel if they were to disappear from my life with "immediate effect".

I quite nonsense right?

I will go into mental agonies as I imagine my closest friends being eaten by sharks, trampled upon by dinosaurs and kidnapped by aliens; the greater the mental agony, the more important they are to me.
The ones I cannot do without are the ones which, if the world goes into a technological spin and all things technological disintegrates and breaks down, and SMS and MSN is wiped off the face of the earth, I will stamp my feet and kill myself because I can't talk to them anymore. It's that drastic!

Anyway, the results of that mental exercise has quite surprising results; it's quite amazing how many people I can do without when I really think about their influence and impact on my life, how I would 'feel' if they suddenly weren't there; which is, surprisingly nothing!

Of course, not everybody is measured based on what they're done for me; just by existing and being and not doing vey much really, I'm grateful for them already.

By simply putting the people I know into, "Can't do without them!", "Nice people to have around", "Can do without", and "With people like these, who needs enemies", I suddenly realise who the essential people really are.

They are the people whom life simply cannot exists without them!