friendship..

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
-- Bernard Meltzer

There are about 6.6 billion people in the world today. What is the probability that 3 certain individuals would meet and know each other and become friends? It is so little that it seems impossible.

But as you see, I have them. The inseparable three(because we are classmates for four years) are namely: Paul Andrew Cinco Gutib, Gian Carlo Casinto Labadia, and Dan Henry Yee Montaño. We may not seem to be the hanging out type of friends, but we are indeed friends.

Our friendship started during the first year of high school in section Bartlett. The thing that we had in common was our fondness of playing computer games. It started with an RPG games without graphics. It was Shimlar. It is a little bit weird because Shimlar wasn't that exciting.

By the time we were second year students (the three of us were in section Palma), we played another game. This one was exciting because there was already graphics in it. It is an MMORPG. Our server was Chaos. At that time, Chaos had a lot of players. Averagely, there were ten thousand players logged in when we play but now there are just about three thousand. Everyday, we went to Surf n' Play just to play Ragnarok. But we got a little bit bankrupt because it was a Pay-to-Play game. That means, we had to buy load for us to play it. 50 pesos is just worth 8 hours of the game. Just image, I spent about 2000 pesos for the whole duration of playing (that is load + computer rental). Other than playing computer games, we also liked to play chess. Palma 2005 was the chess capital of UP at that time. Almost all boys of the batch played chess every lunch and every dismissal.

Then we became third year students (the three of us were still in the same section, Sison). At the start, we played a version of Ragnarok. It was a version wherein no top-up (buying load) was needed. Plus, there were experience and item drop multipliers. Leveling-up was now a piece of cake. We would play every Wednesday because third years are dismissed early every Wednesday. There came another game named DotA (Defense of the Ancients) introduced to us by Robert and Byron. We would be in an internet café after classes playing DotA.

Now that we are in the fourth and last year of high school (and again, we are still classmates- in section Gonzalez), computer gaming after classes is a thing of the past for us. In spite of that, we are still friends. The usual lunch at the canteen is still present (we had that since first year). We still are friends.

Through the years, we stood as friends from start to finish. Isn’t that incredible?

The three of us are filled with flaws. All of us are imperfect. Even if that is true, we still consider we other as friends.