Last Friday, another rainny day, was the first time I came back to Chulalongkorn University in years since I graduated there in 2002. It was commencement on that day but it's not the reason why I came back at all. It's just that I knew I might see many of my old friends from school. and I did see them.

One of my best friends there, she's a girl. She knew me, I knew her. As early life in school was full of everything and nothing but I think I knew her much enough. Time past after we graduated, we hardly see each other, but on the phone for a regular basis of once a month and then faded and faded away. It's not that we were not as close as we were before but it's just that we were busy with our own lives.

Back to the days when I was struggling with getting a job in journalism, it seemed to me like she did not really understand what I was going through. She suggested that I should take whatever was offered. I didn't take her advice. A couple of years later, we found ourself having lunch together just like the old days at Chula but things are a little different. I envied her for being a very bright student and having people around her to offer her assistance in projects. She's really good in school. Not that I want to defeat her. I was happy with her, I AM happy with her.

But things in the old days can't tell where you are heading in the future. A boy confused and lost in life journey has become someone who has a respectable job, so quick that he, himself, couldn't imagine himself 3 years ago. A prospective girl with a bright shinny raods paved with rose petals has become lost and not sure whether to take life actionin what way. The envy is those days had transform itself into admiration and transformed again into emphathy today. I felt sad for her that she could make her mind of what she should do in life. But I just give her advice that it's not wrong to have GOAL in life but once she aims high, she should know in the same time that she should shoot low also.

Road to success might not be cut straight right into your face, there might be some detour as well. It's just the matter of how you make your way up to it. At least that's how I make it to this point today.

There is nothing bad about having a dream, but it's just that you have to realize the reality also. I always tell myself and also told her that too.