I've been having lots of fun reuniting with my middle-school friends online.
Most of them I've known for a very long time, literally straight from the maternity ward.
It's so funny to me that most of them retained their personality traits from back when.
The quiet ones stopped by, said hi and resumed to the background. The flamboyant ones (to keep it politely) still as vocal and outgoing as before, if not even more.
I do appreciate each and every one of them, on their own way.
Some of them I've kept in touch for the past 20 years since I left Brazil. Some of them I have not exchanged a single word during this period.
It is astonishing how we found the same silly rhythm that we had as 13-14 year old kids. Even the ones I thought I would have nothing in common to talk about anymore, surprised me in how easy it was to reacquaint.
I miss them very much. I feel that those were real friendships, the kind that 20 years go by and I can call them up and ask for a shoulder to cry.
One, in particular, became a different kind of friend now. So many things have happened in both of our lives, pulling us in completely different directions, and maybe because of that, we found an array of similarities that formed a new and "grown-up" kind of friendship.
This is where the bi-polarism comes in place. We can both be silly and goof off with the whole group, but on a private level, we talk about life nowadays, of our troubles and tribulations. I like the nuances of it all, the fact that we don't need a definition.
Maybe I just find this so interesting because I was not growing up close to everyone else. The 20-year hiatus weighs heavily and I still somehow see all the old friends as the kids we were back then. After all, aren't we the same kids deep down?
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