Forever young ...
Forever young --- trying to hang on to the moments before they slip away. Collecting memories.
What a fantastic weekend. Alhamdullilah, it really was awesome. We had it all ... rocky beaches, amazing sunsets and sunrises, entertaining ocean spray, biking accidents (oops!), ice cream, issues with peripheral vision (Nada's!) in ABP, crazy lobsters, incredibles, AMAZING crepes ... every moment was carefully documented with trusty digital cameras. Watch this space for pics.
I was rummaging through stuff in my room - no, don't ask how its progressing, its just as bad as it was last week, inshaAllah i'll get up early to work on it!! --- anyhoo, was rummaging, and came across an email from an old friend, Aliya, and it was a forward about friendship ... I shall paste it here ... [I have tried to edit it for lack of space, but my apologies, it is still long!]
It all started so innocently. We met as strangers, thrown together by fate.
Some of you grew up with me, others I have known only a short while.
Some of you I have hugged constantly over the years, and others I met at a time when hugging was "un-cool", and it has stayed that way, even though the times have changed around us.
Some of you I have not yet met in person.
Every one of you has enriched my life. You have helped to teach me, to guide me on this often turning and forking road of life. You have been with me through the good times and the bad. You have comforted me when I cried, held me when I was afraid, and laughed with me when I was happy.
And now we are in college. And though the distance between us is not great, it is great enough.
I am no longer afraid to reach out and hug you, in fact I long to do it.
You had walked with me for so long that I was afraid to venture on alone.
Yet, even as I feared the dark of night, along came others to help me on my journey, in hopes that I would walk with them so the need not journey on alone. They picked up where you left off and now they are no longer strangers.
Who are you? You might be my brother, my sister, my cousin, an old acquaintance or a new one. But first and foremost, I call you friend.
And I miss you if you are away, and if you here then I thank you for standing by my side.
And so I send you this, so that you might know that someone, somewhere, is thinking of you, praying for you, and loving you. And that person is me. May God grant you peace and happiness in your times of trial, and watch over you, so that one day we will meet again.
Whether we met IRL [In Real Life], over the World, over Resort, or SE, or anywhere, I call you friend.
A word so small, yet so large in feeling, a world filled with emotion.
It is true, great things come in small packages.
A part of me is put into my friends, some of it is my humor, some of it my listening ear, some of it my real life experiences, some of it is my romanticism, but with it all, it is friendship.
Friendships forged are a construct stronger than steel built as a foundation, necessary for life, and necessary for love.
Friends, you and me, you brought another friend and then we were three. We started our group, our circle of friends, and like that circle, there is no beginning or end.
It is by chance we met, by choice we became friends...
I got this about 7 years ago in an email and printed it out, stuck it on my wall back home. And it travelled with me here, and somehow got buried under all the junk. Funny I should find it after a weekend with friends that personified the essence of it ...
I just got back from dinner with the DC girls, they surprised me with a send off dinner at Cafe Divan [Georgetown? off Wisconsin] that everyone's been raving about - the food was awesome, the company even better. Alhamdullilah! They're so awesome --- waiting for pics. WATCH THIS SPACE! OH - and for the record books - Lina FINISHED EVERY LAST BIT OF HER ENTREE!! [we have pics!] MABROOK lina :)
My apologies for the incoherent thoughts and lack of enthusiasim ... exhaustion, stress (huh? oh yeah moving stress - the place is a MESS), and the jumble of emotions --- I'm really excited to be going home in two weeks, but I am SO TOTALLY bummed that I'm not here this summer!! [especially coz I'm missing Lina's BBQ, which is technically the day after the wedding, but STILL!]
Anyhoo - random incoherent thoughts taking over --- I'll sign off with this --
to all of you that made this memorial day weekend (that includes dinner) probably THE most memorable weekend EVER -- (you know who you are) - you are the bomb. you rock. top of the A list ;) Jazakhallah khayr!
What a fantastic weekend. Alhamdullilah, it really was awesome. We had it all ... rocky beaches, amazing sunsets and sunrises, entertaining ocean spray, biking accidents (oops!), ice cream, issues with peripheral vision (Nada's!) in ABP, crazy lobsters, incredibles, AMAZING crepes ... every moment was carefully documented with trusty digital cameras. Watch this space for pics.
I was rummaging through stuff in my room - no, don't ask how its progressing, its just as bad as it was last week, inshaAllah i'll get up early to work on it!! --- anyhoo, was rummaging, and came across an email from an old friend, Aliya, and it was a forward about friendship ... I shall paste it here ... [I have tried to edit it for lack of space, but my apologies, it is still long!]
It all started so innocently. We met as strangers, thrown together by fate.
Some of you grew up with me, others I have known only a short while.
Some of you I have hugged constantly over the years, and others I met at a time when hugging was "un-cool", and it has stayed that way, even though the times have changed around us.
Some of you I have not yet met in person.
Every one of you has enriched my life. You have helped to teach me, to guide me on this often turning and forking road of life. You have been with me through the good times and the bad. You have comforted me when I cried, held me when I was afraid, and laughed with me when I was happy.
And now we are in college. And though the distance between us is not great, it is great enough.
I am no longer afraid to reach out and hug you, in fact I long to do it.
You had walked with me for so long that I was afraid to venture on alone.
Yet, even as I feared the dark of night, along came others to help me on my journey, in hopes that I would walk with them so the need not journey on alone. They picked up where you left off and now they are no longer strangers.
Who are you? You might be my brother, my sister, my cousin, an old acquaintance or a new one. But first and foremost, I call you friend.
And I miss you if you are away, and if you here then I thank you for standing by my side.
And so I send you this, so that you might know that someone, somewhere, is thinking of you, praying for you, and loving you. And that person is me. May God grant you peace and happiness in your times of trial, and watch over you, so that one day we will meet again.
Whether we met IRL [In Real Life], over the World, over Resort, or SE, or anywhere, I call you friend.
A word so small, yet so large in feeling, a world filled with emotion.
It is true, great things come in small packages.
A part of me is put into my friends, some of it is my humor, some of it my listening ear, some of it my real life experiences, some of it is my romanticism, but with it all, it is friendship.
Friendships forged are a construct stronger than steel built as a foundation, necessary for life, and necessary for love.
Friends, you and me, you brought another friend and then we were three. We started our group, our circle of friends, and like that circle, there is no beginning or end.
It is by chance we met, by choice we became friends...
I got this about 7 years ago in an email and printed it out, stuck it on my wall back home. And it travelled with me here, and somehow got buried under all the junk. Funny I should find it after a weekend with friends that personified the essence of it ...
I just got back from dinner with the DC girls, they surprised me with a send off dinner at Cafe Divan [Georgetown? off Wisconsin] that everyone's been raving about - the food was awesome, the company even better. Alhamdullilah! They're so awesome --- waiting for pics. WATCH THIS SPACE! OH - and for the record books - Lina FINISHED EVERY LAST BIT OF HER ENTREE!! [we have pics!] MABROOK lina :)
My apologies for the incoherent thoughts and lack of enthusiasim ... exhaustion, stress (huh? oh yeah moving stress - the place is a MESS), and the jumble of emotions --- I'm really excited to be going home in two weeks, but I am SO TOTALLY bummed that I'm not here this summer!! [especially coz I'm missing Lina's BBQ, which is technically the day after the wedding, but STILL!]
Anyhoo - random incoherent thoughts taking over --- I'll sign off with this --
to all of you that made this memorial day weekend (that includes dinner) probably THE most memorable weekend EVER -- (you know who you are) - you are the bomb. you rock. top of the A list ;) Jazakhallah khayr!
posted by zai5h at Monday, May 30, 2005
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