The Friendship I will not Forget in a Hurry

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Have you ever had to give up on a friendship due to one or two issues? What happened and at what stage did you come to this decision? Would you like to rekindle the friendship now or it’s too late?

Growing up, I wasn't really a people person, I usually kept to myself most of the time, and making friends didn't really come easy to me but when I got to high school, it still continued, but something different happened to me.

I was made the class perfect or class governor if I should put it that way, so I was in charge of making sure that my class was peaceful and everything ran smoothly.
Some weeks after resumption, a girl resumed, and on the day she resumed, her Mum came with her, after sorting out all that needed to be sorted out with the school's administrative unit, she asked who was the class prefect, and I was called upon. You wouldn't believe what this student's mom said to me, she said 'Please take care of my daughter'.

I don't know if this lady understood the magnitude of her request. I laughed within myself as I wasn’t done taking care of myself and now I had to take care of another person?, And this person wasn't even someone I was older than, we were of the same age.

Anyway, I responded with 'I would do my best'. With those few words, a new friendship was born that day. Joyce was and is a very sweet girl, she was the direct opposite of me, while I was very reserved, Joyce was very much outspoken, I had no artistic bone in me, but she was a born artist, she could draw and create things with her hands, I could go on and on about some contrasting features between both of us but we bonded.

As time went on we became so close, that we practically did everything together, if you saw one person, be rest assured that you would see the other. My family knew her, and also her family knew me, it was a friendship I was very proud of.

One thing about my friend is that she was very intelligent and smart, we both complemented each other. The fact that we were always in the same class was a delight, we were always seatmates, but sometimes some teachers would want to separate us, but we always found our way back to watch other's seats until the teachers were tired and had to let us be.

Things were going smoothly between us until we got to our senior secondary class which was divided into arts, science, and social sciences. Joyce went for arts, while I went for science. I noticed that during that period, we began to gradually drift apart, the fact that we no longer took the same classes was a contributing factor, but I was still trying to reach out.

After a while I noticed that she made some other friends, and wasn't making so much effort to reach out to me, this continued till we graduated high school. I was still trying to reach out during this period, but I wasn't really getting good responses.

We would make plans to hang out or do stuff, but she would cancel last minute without a reasonable reason, I had to take a cue from all that was happening and told myself that at this point, it was obvious she wasn't interested in being friends with me anymore, so I began giving her the space she wanted and that was how we drifted apart.

Mind you we aren’t enemies, if we see each other now, we catch up a little on how we are both doing and continue with our lives, sometimes too we call and talk for a while. Sometimes I really wish that we didn't have to end the relationship we had, because that was like the best friendship I've had with a girl, and it was awesome while it lasted, but as the saying goes people come into our lives at different points and also leave, so such is life😃

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