She was just a simply young girl - mischievous, loud and carefree. Even though she never really had any friends, and no one really cared or bothered to get to know her, it never bothered her because she was independent. She didn't need anyone. She didn't mind being alone. Even though she was bullied and mocked in school, she always remembered what her mother once told her, "sticks and stones may break your bones but words can never hurt you". That was her motto.

Troubles came, but it soon passed because it was nothing she could not handle. Life wasn't perfect, but there wasn't much to complain. Life went on and no matter what trials she faced, she would always pick herself up. No matter what abusive words people would hurled at her, she would never let it affect her because she knew someone up there, loved her for who she was. And for her, that was enough.

But somewhere down the road of Life, she got lost. She went down the wrong path and started wandering through the city walls alone. Fortunately for her, someone came and picked her up, cleaned her and gave her another chance. It was that someone who made her realize that the bright light that came in when she was in the dark, was not to blind her, but to show her the way.

She learned to love, trust and finally opened herself up entirely to that person. He became so protective of her that she started to become protective of herself. She started to feel like someone of 'value'. And in turn, she wanted to be there for that person because he was the only one that treated her as a someone when society treated her as a no one. However, even though he was there for her, he didn't want to burden her with his problems. In the end, he chose to leave.

She could live without that someone and forget him. But she chose not to forget him, because she knew that she wouldn't be the person she was now if it wasn't for that someone. He could have left her when he found her on the ground. But, he picked her up, dusted her off and made sure she was standing on her own two feet before he left.

Life is no different from a book. Season change, people come and go. Whether they're just a chapter in your life, or whether they stayed till the end, nobody really knows. But if there was one thing she was sure of, she wanted him to stay till the end. She wanted him to be there when she got married because to her, he was a part of her family.

We can predict our future as much as we want, but there is no guaranteed promise that our future is going to be the outcome we planned in our mind. At some point we'll feel pain, and there'll be tears. But, like I said in my last post - people come and people go.

Friends who once held great promise of an everlasting friendship might not necessarily make it into the next chapter of your life. People are like sunlight. You can feel their warmth and their glow, but you can't hold them in your hand and keep them with you forever.