How many of your childhood friends are still around you? Is your shildhood best friend still your best friend?

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We were three friends. I liked to call us the triangle friends as a triangle has only three sides. We were even in the same class, so bonding was just too easy. After school, we still get to play because we lived in the same neighborhood. It only got better because we attended the same church,we would sing special numbers together and dance together during church programs.

We were friends for life or maybe I thought so because we even had same career interests. We all wanted to be medical doctors. Little did I know that life had it's own plan for us. Few years down the line, we were still in college when I had to relocate because my elder sister who I happened to be living with got married and needed to join her husband in another city.

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what's going to happen now to the friendship We successfully developed over the years?

We were all curious to know. Maybe I could come around and visit I assured them. We would stay in touch and exchange letters we agreed. Mobile devices were newly introduced into the country so not every home had it. Two months later I paid the first visit. It was all joy to see us together again. Two months passed and another relocated back to Lagos Nigeria. That means even if we we're to write a letter, there's no guarantee that it would arrive our destination.

Okay, let's just keep pursuing our dreams. We could meet at high school we thought but fate pulled us apart. We found other career interests in life. I ended up an agriculturist, one a nurse and the other a microbiologist. It still would have been OK if we attended same universities but no, fate wasn't done with us. We made new friends and forgot old ones. I mean life is for the living. It's in the present, not past. No one is guaranteed of the future. We can only pray and hope.

It's been over fifteen years from the time we parted ways. we lost touch completely until Facebook got us reconnected but it's not the same anymore. One got married April last year. We all got the invite to attend. I had to clear my schedule. I mean this is my childhood friend. I really wanted to see her. I thought this was going to help us catch up on all we've missed and possibly re-bond. Sadly, I was wrong. We felt like strangers. I couldn't understand. Something was off. We practically lost ideas on subjects of discuss.

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It's sad because my childhood best friend is not best friend anymore. The chord has been broken and the triangle is now a straight line. Just me. Its OK because that's life. Changes are bound to happen but we have to embrace it and live on.