A Loyalty for an Eternity

“Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; just walk beside me and be my friend.”

 -Albert Camus

Apparently those words have a deep meaning about friendship in order to make relation among friends become closer. Perhaps that quotation will be very beneficial for those who know the precious of a friend instead it will make no sense for those who don’t. As I look back, I have been walking out a good relationship with one of my friends since I was in Junior High School. Carolina Ayu Rahmawati is my closest friend that I have ever had because we learn and share each other about the difficulties as well as ease in this life although we are apart now.

In my Junior High School when I was in the first grade, I met with a girl who became my closest friend since we have acquainted. She is a girl who identical with her tomboy style, Olin is her nickname. She never let her hair grow longer exceed her shoulder even just a bit. She will cut her hair until she has a short hair style. She is a Chinese. She has slanted eyes and bright color of her skin. Apart from her tomboy appearance, she is a girl who very much concerns with her dressing and very neat in every event.

I love Olin so much as my friend because she can be a good friend, counselor, listener, and motivator for me, even she can be my parent who takes care of me very well. She always listens to me patiently whether it was my problems, objections, obstacles, or happiness. Beside that she has funny personality, her jokes can make me laugh out loud. In addition, many people say she is as an easy going person because whenever and wherever she is, she can quickly adapt with her surroundings. Therefore, she has many friends in her schools, courses, home etc. She is very smart student. When we were in Junior High School, we often learn to share about the difficulties in every lesson to get a solution. However, nobody is perfect in this world as well as Olin who sometimes can be a stolid person when she is in a bad mood but I’m not regard it as her imperfection, I regard it as a complement in our friendship instead.

She keen on swimming very much and is very capable of swimming. Although I am not as good as her in swimming, we often went to swimming pool every Sunday morning to swim together or just enjoy a day together. Another things that she loves are drawing and producing some beautiful paintings which are put in her room. The painting might be abstract or not. She also collects some comics and novels because she loves to read a lot. That’s why she encourages me to read the recent novels that she has. We often share our hobby each other as long as it belongs to the positive things.

Time goes on until we graduated from one of well known Junior High Schools and choose different public school and entered different University because of different interest we have. We are apart now, she is a student of Indonesia University while I study in Ganesha University of Education. She will be back to Bali in every semester holiday. We can meet and do many things which we love and we used to do to live out the holiday until she goes back for her study. Even though we are apart, we still communicate through some social networks to share, to know how her life is, and to support each other. I feel there are no differences with my dear friend; since we were in Junior High School until now on. She is still my best friend who is care, loyal and merciful as always.

How lucky I am to have her as a part of my life because she can treat me more than I deserve, more than I expect, and more than I desire. Those treatments can make our friendship eternal now and forever though we are separated by a distance. I will keep our memories and create countless nice memories. I realize that best friend is unchangeable with anything else. Understanding each other is the key to have a loyalty in friendship.