Missing my Barkada

Can't help but think about the lovely women who's grown up with me, and has been there to support me throughout these years. It's my AB Barkada. There's something about sharing life at UST, the growing pains, completing or at least going through our bachelor's degrees, the surprises that we had to deal with along the way. There are the boyfriends, work, family obligations, pregnancy, being a wife etc. We've grown so much together and have experienced our adulthood in various facets. I won't be where I am without my AB Barkada.

Now I am here going through my own struggles and not a barkada in sight. Thank God for social media as we are able to keep abreast of the going ons with our lives. I can't help but think on how things can be like when I am able to have a catch up with the girls, and then have that free exchange of thoughts, conversations about parenting or just life as a whole. Remember how I've always been the profound one. How I've always been the one who's so naive.

But that's life. Some people go through levels of realisations in varying degrees. Some just don't grow at all. Or maybe, things just gets stalled and before you know it, years have gone by already.

Oh how fast these things just happen. If we do not cherish the moments that we have together, then it's so easy to miss thsoe milestones, or key experiences that are worth sharing with the barkada.

I give thanks to having this really cool set of friends who I know will always be there for me, no matter where I am or what I have become.

Right now, we are all here to support our barkada, Lovella Pesquira Cailipan. Cancer may have crept up to you unknowingly but I know that with the support that this barkada is giving you, and the many friends along the way, you will be able to go through the treatment and recovery successfully. We'll continue to cheer you on. We are your friends, your long lost sisters and we'll do everything that we can to help you win this battle.

Lotsa love to you Lababz! Giving you a big hug from middle earth!