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Thoughts weaved as I took the trip home from Air Force School.

The friends that we meet along our lives;
Are they just mere passer-bys they we just happen to cross paths with?
Or they walk along side you for as long as the friendship can hold?

I feel, friends that appear in your life is like you taking a bus.
No one knows who the driver is, you are one of the passengers that board it.

Different buses represent different phrases of your life, be it from Primary school to Secondary school or even to National Service.

These buses that we would board have different passengers.

You board a bus, get to know the people on the bus. Some of them you would dislike and others you woule find something special in them.

The thought that came to me was, at these certain phases of life, some of the passengers you have had met before would cross paths with you. Does it mean that the friendship would be "renewed" or would it be strengthened?

Friends that we make in life, happens so that we always stop seeing each other after alighting these different "buses". Yes, we do keep in touch. However the things we do are never going to be the same again.

Surely everyone has experienced this before. "Missing the good old times." "Ah how I wish that we could do what we used to do again." These few sentences would submerge whenever we see old friends.

Strangely the only things we seems to share are simply put, "update" of our current lives and the experience we had in the previous "bus".

Is it what we are looking for?
Wouldn't it be nice for us to get together again and do the things we used to do?

No, would be the answer usually to the question.

The current situations don't allow it or we have all grown up.

Then again what does growing up mean?
Does it mean to leave old friends behind? Does it mean to just be able to update each other on what we are doing?

Keep in touch! Let's meet up again!

Often said but lost in time. Time and the hectic lifestyle slowly erodes old friends away. Making them seem far away.

These may seem like just plain old rubbish but hey, these thoughts are swimming in my head as I type.

This may not have a concludsion but at least I gave it "form".

朋友是永远的吗？
我想是的吧。
只是时间把所有遗忘。
再见！再见！
真得会再见吗？

不想把一切忘掉、只想把时间留着。
让它停留，让泪和笑再型成。
回忆只会让我们模糊，看不清楚前面的路。
是否未来幸福，我只能一步一步。