The Silverbloggers Chronicles - Prompt #29 Your favourite person while growing up

When we are children, we are always surrounded by many people. Nowadays, families are much smaller, but there are always people there for the children as they grow up.

In my childhood, families generally had many members. In my case, I am the seventh of eight siblings, one of the youngest. However, my favorite person wasn't among my siblings,

although I was always very close to my older brother. He was very funny, even though he was very shy, but he was always there for me when I needed him.

My favorite person was a friend who lived about three blocks from my house. We started going to school together in first grade and stayed together until the third year of high school. That's when things changed. We went our separate ways academically, but our friendship continued. After graduating from high school, things changed. She went to university, and I entered the workforce.

This friendship still exists, even though we see each other very little. That feeling of friendship, respect, and love for our families remains.

Sometimes we think they've forgotten about us, but when we meet, it's like we want to be children again. Even though we were raised differently—I was calmer, and she was more determined when it came to sports—I think that's what friendships that last are like. There was always respect, even though we were together in many personal and academic activities, and that's invaluable.

The last time we met we talked a lot and reminisced about our trips back and forth between home and school, how we used to walk together and help each other with different tasks. Although, as I mentioned in previous paragraphs, we went our separate ways, to this day she remains in the town where we grew up and were born, while I have lived in other cities and am currently away from my hometown.