It’s been weeks since I locked myself in my room, something that I normally do whenever and wherever. Even though I found a sanctuary in my own room, sometimes I do need a dose of socialising to keep me sane. Otherwise, I will be so much depressed and estranged from my social circle.
For once in a while I met my friend. I was an extrovert that’s why I have a quite broad social circle. When I was returned, I kept meeting my high school friends, college friends, elementary school friends, then here and there. From them, sometimes I gained energy and sometimes I feel too blessed because I maintained good communication with them.
Some of my friends were my elementary school friends, we already been friend since almost 20 years ago. Compared to me, they’re quite unlucky. Their high school friends left, made them alone in Malang. Therefore, they barely hang out or socialising. This case also happens to my high school friends or college friends, as if they only have me and our social circle in this city. To be frank, almost half of my friends are introvert so no wonder.
Yesterday I did a collaboration of podcasting with my high school friend. The thing I love the most when we met in private, we can talk about anything and share everything. It is different when we meet in a group of friend, we are going to be a bit distant since everyone’s going to eavesdrop our conversation. I like meeting a friend but I prefer to do it in private, I don’t really like meeting friends in such a big group. To be honest, that drains my energy a lot.
I wrote this because I think I need to share what information that I get from meeting a friend. Apart from meeting my high school friend and doing something productive, I also met another friend from junior high school.
I gather the information that a person can change completely, this happens to my junior high school friends a lot. Somebody who barely made it to the class, too lazy, and ignorant can grow up to be a good person and interested in politics. Somebody who were so smart, ended up living ordinary life. Some people converts religion when we were having a quarrel back then (this one was so funny!).
Life is a mystery, yes! We cannot define who we are going to be according to our high school era. Me too, I didn’t use to be who I am right now. I was so stubborn, close minded, ambitious, and competitive. Time has changed me, I learn a lot from people I met during these years and I’ve become who I am.
But some people accordingly stays the same, they only talk about possessions, love, rivalry, competitiveness. I can’t deny that there are few who don’t actually want to be worse than the other.
Well, listening to the stories of my friends made me realise that we hold the possibility to change our life. We can be whatever we want :)