I guess there's always been a line between acquaintance and friends, friends and best friends, best friends and more than just best friends. I never realised that the line between best friends and acquaintance could come so close too. I guess that best friends was a term that both of us established when we actually were, at that point of time, but I would like to liken friendship to an anti-virus software on the computer.

You always need to run checks on your computer to make sure everything's running alright, smoothly, un-virused. It doesnt mean that at a point in time where the virus scan says your computer is free of virus, there never will be virus attacking your software. Every now and then, maybe 2/3 months, checks must be run just to make sure that everything is okay, and when there's a virus, you look into the source and try to clear it up so your computer will continue to function well. The scenario is this, you havent ran updates/routine checks on your computer in about a year or more, and you know very well that there is a virus, you're just too lazy to update your virus software. You live with the notion that your computer will be fine, veiled with the facade that your computer is protected by the anti-virus, which by the way has failed you so you should think of another way to solve it. So eventually when your computer breaks down, you realise that you should've done something about it when you could, now its too late.

Another analagy to give about a slightly different but related incident is this: Friendship is like, Silver & Gold. Maybe you've heard they saying, maybe not, but there's one that goes "Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver the other, Gold" You know, in the past, Gold was highly sought after and people valued it a lot, now silver is the new trend and no one really wants to be caught wearing Gold around their necks, especially when one is young - that is, young, foolish and oh so predictable. Lets just pretend that Gold is worth a lot of money and Silver not so much, you can only keep one of the 2, you recently had a fetish for Silver, and even though Gold is supposedly worth more, you decide on the spur of the moment to sell the Gold away and keep the Silver. Maybe I'm petty, but how could you not tell me? Finding it our from someone else had got to be the most painful experience you could give me.

In a simplistic relation to common lingo, people summarise the above into one question, "If _____ and ______ were both trapped in a burning building and you could only save one, who would you save?" So think about it, who would you save? Cause sad to say, with the pent up hurt, I defintely would not save you.