What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now?
Friendship will last forever.
Yes, this is how I, and perhaps you too, used to believe in this promise when we were children.
We promised we would go to the same school, to the same university, and that our children would one day be friends just like us.
But these pure and simple childhood dreams didn’t always come true.
Your childhood best friends changed schools, moved abroad, or just disappeared.
And this holy promise of “we’ll always be friends” vanished into thin air.
And the blow repeated itself over the years
Because this is life; unexpected and always changing.
So instead of crying over the holy promise, you learn to move on.
Day after day, you realise how that the old holy promise wasn’t only ridiculous but it was also so naive.
But you can’t blame your childhood self.
And don’t laugh at its innocence.
What could be better in life than those simple, pure children?
Their holy pinky promise was honest,
but their little minds could never have imagined how the big world would change everything, friendship included and perhaps on the top of the list.
With kids-promise-of- friendship-thoughts,
Nahla
Pure and Simple 