Before we played One-Two-Three-Pass, now it’s Poker

I went out with my grade school friends tonight. We visited the grave of one of our classmates together. Then, we went out :)

I went out with people I knew from as far as 15 years ago. They recognize the “me” that i was from days when I looked like a rabbit with my “bunny teeth” and immense love for pigtails and Sailor Moon.

It’s amazing, how we all live different lives with social circles that have never met all those years.. until now. It’s funny how despite the obvious “life gaps” we all have, we can still hang out with each other so easily just like when we were kids!

Two of them are nurses now, some work at call centers, one freelances production shoots, another is a preschool teacher, one is a psychology clinic assistant. There are two who are still students and will most likely handle businesses of their own someday, or maybe pursue dreams in creative production or in music.

Everyone is in a hazy transition phase to “adulthood” (yuck, haha!). I can’t believe it sometimes. In my mind, everyone is my classmate from Sunny Hill School. There’s recess time, one-two-three-pass, agawan-base, projects-cramming, sabayang bigkas, etc. 

Tonight while betting Piso coins in Poker, we talked of money, work, marriage, going abroad, raising children.

I still treat everyone like I’ve done so when we were kids (chummy, “physical” in that I punch them sometimes, very sibling-like), and it seems okay. It’s like we didn’t grow up all differently, it’s as if we still were together all that time.

I’m lucky  my childhood friends still see “me” just the same :)