Christmas

Out of all my Christmas gatherings with friends, the one I look forward to the most is the one with my high school friends. Maybe because it's usually a weekend night, whereas gatherings with other friends are usually for lunches and weekday nights.

Maybe it's because we've all seen each other through the best and worst of times, maybe it's because we've grown up together so there's a certain level of purity between us. At the same time, this kind of friendship can be a double edge sword in the sense that we've only allowed a certain level of image to be seen with the other person. It can be hard to break through that mold especially if there are other avenues of ourselves that are drastic from the other.

Either way, for that couple of hours we were together, it was an awesome night for everyone. You can tell everyone had a great time because as soon as everyone got home, they were all looking to add each other on facebook. My news feed was flooded with notices on who became friends and a smile formed on my face.