Old friends

I've been spending the last few days with some old friends... and we're 'old' friends in more ways than one. We've been hanging out together since our days in primary school and now we're in our very early 30s. We try to see each other as often as we can which sometimes isn't very often at all. But when we get together it's like we've never been apart.

We often say things like, 'You haven't changed at all', which is always true at some level. At these times all the heavy layers of cynicism, sophistication and occasional wisdom that we've accumulated over the years peel off slowly and we talk and act like the giddy schoolgirls we are inside.

And we also say, 'You look exactly the same as before', and we actually believe it. Perhaps we're delusional.