Preface : Where all roads meet...

(Bismillahirahmanirrahim)

This would be the first entry ever written on the blog, about my 5 best friends in the world. The ones who I grew up with and have known me since I was 13. Our lives have moved on and we each have a story of our own. Recording our lives on this blog, would be something that would naturally fall on my shoulders, as the one who's most expressive and coincidentally, love writing. What spurred me to initiate this idea was when today, during our casual daily chats on Whatsapp*, I learnt a few things about my best friends that I never knew before. It woke up some senses and brought me back to some years back when I might have been too busy with my own *crumbling* world, to have noticed.

Most importantly, I learned and keep learning, not to judge people or their characters - even though some of their traits are dislike-able at a certain point. There's a reason to everything, and how each person develop is through their upbringing, social exposures, internal and external factors amongst other things. But if you have spent more than 20 years with that person, obviously that has to count for something. A few scratches here and there does not crack a mirror - and like a mirror, are you that perfect yourself to not forgive other people's flaw? Haven't Allah showed you His blessings, given upon you great bounty and most importantly, His mercy?

Say: O My servants who have transgressed against their own souls, despair not of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surah az-Zumar 39:53)

No, we don't have the right to judge. We have to the right to be patient if our intentions are right, We have the right to be there, when our friends need us. And that's what we've been doing for each other, for more than 20 years. We are still learning about each other's characteristics and found that our misjudgement back then have caused us to oversee the depth of an individual we have ignored before. We still have time. We still have NOW at least. Fate brings people together, and it seems that it is also responsible for us being here today. My 5 best friends with whom - each and everyone I adore and love, and along my path, have learned from. They made me who I am today - if I can say so myself - someone who is passionate about life but once a dreamer who's only wish was to have a family - Alhamdulillah - I am blessed with that now. And I am almost complete.

Today, after continents, children, jobs, even a few hejabs later - we are stronger than before. Thousands of miles and distance came between us, yet, these are the people that I share most of my life with, who knows me more than my own family.

To Haslilah, Norazlin, Rohaya, Siti & Sofy - You all have a big place in my heart and in my life. I'm glad Allah brought us together again. I'm glad that even though each of you have your journeys with me, we are able to consolidate our friendship and it is now our Safety Blanket - a place to share, laugh, cry - in a small window called MITH installed on our new century's necessary gadget - a hand phone.

(It has been 7 months now that we've been chatting on *Whatsapp, and in just 9 days I'll be seeing you all again in the flesh)

And our stories goes...