Sanyang Express

All aboard!

Sanyang Express bound for Insanity Avenue, is now leaving! Get limited, front row seats to bedlam!

Note:From hereon until thereafter, this absolutely makes little sense. Don't blame me, as I've said, this train is bound for bedlam. You've been warned. Read at your own risk.

Choo, choo! Off we go!

That's what you usually get when you go on adventures with one of your best friends. The experience is briefly comparable with eating Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. When Ron Weasley said, you gotta be careful because when they say every flavor , they mean every flavor. (not that I've eaten one, mind you.)

That's how it's like. You think you already know what's coming then boom, it gets you in the face. I'm like, whoa! what hit me?! But it's only for a nano-second because the next thing I know, I'm doubled up laughing til my tummy hurt.

It's a visual thing. This is a very important truth. But those with excellent imagination can pull it off. almost, that is.

Anyway, do you know anybody who is without a clue yet seems to know a lot? Sounds contradictory, but believe me. I know such a person. one of my best-est friends. Know the adage through thick and thin, rain or shine? She's been that and more to me. More to the point that sometimes, I'm guilty of taking her for granted. But I've got this another theory that sometimes, it's a hallmark of true friendship, when you get to the point that you need not ask or feel guilty about asking from your friend/s favors; you're not coy about declaring what you need from them, even when they can't give you anything at all (especially money!) but the mere fact that I can ask them already means a lot.

It has been way for sometime now. I consider myself lucky to belong in her circle. Anyway I digress.

So I find myself on the platform, wondering whether to get on the train or not.

I was like, am I sure I even want to get on the train? I asked myself. So, with eyes closed and heart pumping, I jumped as the train started to move. Are there no other compartments? She seems harmless anyway!

Harmless my ass! She was anything but that. However it turned out to be one of the weirdest, right decisions that I made. And oh boy! Oh boy! What a ride it turned out to be. Still is. Such highs and lows.

It made me think of how friendships are formed. There is no friendship calculator that tells you should you be friends with this person or not, there is compatibility but there are no strict requirements at all. All it takes, is a moment much the same as love at first at sight, minus the attraction of course. This is not bizarro world folks. I think the most unlikely frienships formed are some of the lasting ones made. Well, I certainly hope so.

In life, I believe most decisions are basic or on an instinctive level, fight or flight. In this instance, I decided to take the chance. She may be off her rocker (wehehehehe) but hey, you couldn't find someone like her in this lifetime or the next. (song one in a million starts at this point).

So what am I saying? At the most inopportune moments, when you find yourself in the same boat as I did, with your eyes closed, heart and mind ready, take the plunge! Who knows, you'll get lucky, as I did.

Choo, choo!


Shoutout to CeCee! It's your time to shine girl!




PS. the original A-rated version of this article was lost. such bad luck last night.