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Today We Talked About People

We met for the second time after yesterday, same place and same time, but today he was late for half an hour.
"Dude, you late! For 30 minutes. You lost?" I laughed.
"Yeah... I know... Things still haven't change in KL, like usual, traffic jam." He stared at my coffee and continued.
"Same coffee again? What so special about it?" He curious about the coffee I ordered.
"Iced Caramel Macchiato, one of my best friends introduced this coffee to me last few months ago. I like the way it taste, you can give it a try." I said.
"Emm... I want to see how good is it. I thought you only drink cappuccino..." He skeptical about the taste of my coffee.

He curious, because usually once I found my favorite drinks, I will stuck with it for a very long period, sometime I don't even bother to try a new taste. He walked into the shop and grab his drink, like usual, I lighted my cigarette while waiting for him.

"Hey, you never thought of quit smoking?" He took the first sip of his coffee.
"Of course I thought of it before, but now I lost my reason to quit. Nah... I don't want to talk about it anymore." That question recalled friendship and relationship that cause me a lot of pain. These days, I just don't bother to care about it anymore, since they don't even bother to solve the problem. The relationship had seem to lost the value to keep and protect.

"I don't have much friends these days... You considered the few of my good friends that I can really talked to." Loneliness was shown in his eyes when he said these words.
"Seem like when you getting older, friends that can talk with their heart was getting less, wasn't it?" I continued what he didn't get to finish.
"At list I still have you!" He said it, and both of us laughed.

"Good friend is getting difficult to find... I should say, people that willing to talk with their heart is getting less. I have a lot of friends, but I known it very clearly, only few of them are really put their heart in our relationship. Think about it, how many people can really be like us? Have a cup of best coffee while sharing our feeling with each other?" I pointed to the another table not far away from us and continued.
"You see, that guys with another two girls, he probably tried to shown them the best side of him, and the girls probably was too dumb and innocent to think his dirty jokes was humor... And they probably just know the guys for few months. We both guys, and we all know the way guys talk."
"How you knew they was just get to know each other?" He curious why I said they just knew each other for not very long.
"Because the girls asked for his number. Don't you think it weird if I already know you for a very long time and I don't even have your number?" He burst into laughter.
"And the girls asked for his occupation and where he from. I will know what my friend doing and where is he from, would I?" We all laughed again.

"People get interested to new people they just know, because they are mystery, and there are still lot things to explore in that person. And sometime, they become not so interested with their old friends, because not much they can explore with their old friends anymore. And a lot of people will denied this, because they will still stay as a friends, but just they don't realize they are getting less to spend time with their old friends. It not wrong, because get to know new people is interesting, don't you think?" I shared my opinion with him.

He nodded his head, and I continued.
"We are lucky, because we appreciated each other, and we willing to tolerance with each other. And that's the reason why we still here." I smiled while enjoying my coffee.

-To Be Continued-