Dear Diary,
So another friend is getting married soon. It seems like in 2 years all my friends will be walking around with toddlers and I'll be the single one out in the gang.😂
Anyway I'm not really bothered by it. We all have different orders of priorities.
So I found out my best friend of the last 4 years was going to get hitched through her fiancé. How crazy is that?He happens to be a long forgotten acquaintance of mine, and by the miracle of the instagram algorithm gods, his 'Happily engaged' post landed up on my feed. At first I was a bit confused, because I couldn't correlate the heading and the girl in the pic. I thought, 'wait, I know this girl from somewhere'.....Then I thought,..'shit, it's Megan'. Then I felt bad that, I had to find out the news, from him and not her , even though we remain great friends even after college(atleast in my opinion).
In 1 second, I went from confusion to disbelief to disappointment.
And then as if she sensed my feeling from a 1000 kilometers away, she messaged me after 2 hours, saying,.....Hey,......So.....i got engaged. We just had a small ceremony at the temple. Just a few people attending it. I didn't even call X or Y.
Idk, she sounded apolegetic.
Anyway, even though it stung a little at first, I'm trying to look at it as positively as I can.
It's ridiculous to expect everybody we meet in life to stay in touch with us forever. Lately, I have been taking this approach to viewing all relationships. It hurts less that way. You won't feel disappointed in people as much as you used to. The best thing we can do is to treat them well, be nice to them, when they're passing through our lives.
So about Megan, regardless of what happened, I'm happy for her. I know the guy. He's is a very level headed person. He'll take care of her very well. Also she got a job after a 11 month job search at our nearby IT park. So that's also fantastic.
She needed all this. After losing her dad, she struggled a lot. I'm in awe of her for taking up all the responsibilies of the house. As a single child, she didn't have any one to support her. And she did everything on her own. Taking care of her grandparents, mom and running around getting stuff ready and managing college in between.
I know there were a few miscommunications between us during our friendship in college. But I don't think they were a big deal. Our friendship has survived them all. We're doing good. Maybe she remembers it differently. Maybe those things stung her more.
Idk. I never will know what's in the back of her head. I'm not going to ask her about it also. For now, I'm just really glad that she's headed for a stable life.
All the best, Megan!
Love,
Meru.