Faces

Dust is covering the entire place, I wonder, for how long did I ignore this room? It has been more than three years since I graduated. For me, it seems like three days.

From where should I start, I should clean it up for my sister, she is now on her way back home and I promised her to find it ready. I promised her to give her my room when she finishes her high school. And her she is, grown up now. She called me at my home, reminding me with my promise. And she insisted that I should clean it up, and choose which boxes I want and which I don’t want to keep. It was my room at my parents' house.

The walls in this room shared me a lot of memories. I can hear laughs and cries. This room was my best friend; I remember talking to each corner of it when I was in my happiest or saddest moments. Even my friends liked my room so much; we spent hours of studying and chitchatting. I miss those old days which will never come back again.

I remember this box; I put in it the books I most liked during the four years. Oh my God, did I really keep all these pairs of shoes I used to wear?!! What a silly girl I was? What was I thinking of? Was it a joke?

Trying to reach to the next corner of the room I noticed something, there is a note stuck on the wall!! Let me go and see. I have to pass dozen of boxes. On my right, was three boxes were on top of each other, mistakenly I hit the first one on the top. It flew up and was opened and everything in it was flying over me.

What surprised me that I was not hurt; I was expecting a dictionary flies up in the air and back down on my head, on the contrary, all what fell on me were pictures!! I sat on the floor, picking up some pictures around me, pictures from different periods of my life.

Life is really surprising; it changes everything in our lives. Looking at these pictures, seeing how friends used to be then!! It was simple and direct. No need to have doubled face relations. It was pure and natural. Is these feelings about friendship was because I was young? Was it because we were pure and natural? And as we grow up and experience life in different aspects and face several shocking cases in life, your opinion about life changes too?
Friends were so close at that time, they were so warm. Nowadays, most of them are online friends!! You might not see them all your life. You might not know them from the first place. Life is becoming too fast to have enough time to make true and real friends. We meet on line, hi, hi, and then we start chatting, whether you were honest with the person you are talking to or not, no one cares. For some people it is only for one reason, wasting time and having fun.

This really shocks me; I am a person who respects people and relations. I am a kind of person, who worships friendship, and I have effort and energy to open my heart for millions of them, but they should share me one simple thing, respecting friendship.

Should we have a benefit in every friend we know? I knew people who were really so selfish. I spend too much time thinking of such human beings. How could they just ignore you for nothing?

Faces are running now in my mind, some are real and some I just try to imagine how they look like. Some I spent a life time with and some only few months. Most of them are gone forever, and I do not regret it at all.

But the most beautiful faces I ever had seen are here in these pictures. I can feel in the smiles in them how lovely and sweet our emotions towards each others are. I am sure, however and whatever tried to keep us in distance, we still miss each other.

Life will keep on going, giving you the chance to know more people. But if you met thousands of new friends it will never be the same as you were young. Friends during that period are a treasure. From each person you learn something, and you save it back in your mind. Whether you remember it or you do not, that is not the point, but the most important thing is that you learned something!!

For me, when ever I pass through something I remember passing through it with one of my friends, I forget all about the issue and just go back to that day, with my friend, and try to remember every single detail. I close my eyes, and try to smell the place, and try to hear how noisy it was around, I can see everything. The lesson is learnt, and a wide smile show up on my face.

This is how friendship is for me. This is how I want to keep my friends around me; wherever I am they should be there.

How come I did not take this box with me to my home? They should be with me in my new home. To share new memories and have fun as we always did. I want to have a new box full of memories to remember when I am 50 or 60. I want them with me to learn more from them and they might learn from me.

Do they remember me as I do?!! I hope so. They should be sure that I will always have them safe in my heart. I love you all.

I should go back to clean up this room! I stood up, and again my eyes fell on the note which was like waiting for me to read it. I went calmly to the wall; I never felt so in peace like now. I reached to it; I took it off the wall…

"These pairs of shoes that are lying in peace here in my room are the ones I wore in my last 10 years!! But during every mile I walked wearing them I learned something, and from every lesson there was a reason, and for every reason there was a person, and every person I learned from I consider him/her a friend. I wish I could walk million miles to have more true friends during my life. Wish me healthy feet and legs and energy to walk more and more and more "

This was the note!!