From here onward...

Sat down for lunch and drinks with my two study buddies.

Somehow or other, we started talking about the exams we wrote last year.  (Hard to believe that they were like a year ago already...so fast.)  One of them mentioned that we'll always have these exams to remember and talk about for the rest of our lives.

That's not quite what I was thinking.  It's more than that.

When I think about the exams from last year, I'm reminded that I've made two lifelong friends.  We've seen the best and worst of each other (to some degree, at least).  We've complained.  We've vented.  We've laughed.  We've argued (a lot).  We've gone through a few very significant life events together.  But most of all, we know we get each other, and that we can argue and it won't matter, because in the end, it'll all be okay.

They're good people, and we make an awesome team.  (Work would be a lot easier if they were the ones working with me. =_=)

But...having said that...I'm still reluctant to let them know any more about the other parts of my life.  In the end, I'm still not sure how well that would go.  And at this point, there really is no need to share too much.

Ironically, the people who know the most personal things are, perhaps, the ones that I spend relatively little time with.  I guess, it's a different kind of relationship.  I guess, I trust them for other reasons.  And I'm pretty confident that they would not betray me.