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People say it’s a miracle we are still friends, there are so many differences in both of us that it seems a total eye burning contrast. I m talking about my best friend Shumaila, she is an ordinary girl like me: in teens, beautiful and talented.

I met Shum (that’s what she says we should call her) by luck, hummm…well not like she was just standing there and I went out to make friends with her. We are actually part of a same program for community service and youth empowerment.

She is one of those perky girls that catch your eye and you are at them just there. At first as it seems the only thing matching between us were our birthdays, we both being the same age actually had our birthdays in the same month. Hers is October 9 and mine is October10! This brought us close before knowing we were total negative of each other.

If I would like apple punch she would go for a coke, I would wear blue she would make a face of disgust, if I would say short hair is good she would go for the longest in the world.

Even being from Karachi we communicated mostly by emails and that was the hardest part. I spent half an hour reading the “haf u gt 1 ov the buzzy daz 2?” and finally realizing she means our hard working days of the year that is the exams! Several times I would print her emails and try to make out the words which were half letters and half numbers!

Coming to our hobbies I mainly lay down cozily reading a book or drawing out sketches when she says she cant live with out her TV and is obliged to go and sit in front of the huge screen munching on what looks like a pack of cheetos. Sometimes it gets on my nerves the way she eats all she wants and is always the beautiful structure of bones and flash, and when it comes to my eating, if I eat a paratha in the morning I m so sure to gain a pound by the evening!

We went to Sydney together to attend an event of the program and in first days I began to have one of those, I-feel-like-an-alien feelings roaming around in between bunches of goras and goris, and there she was in jeans perking up and laughing about with her new friends looking as if she might have been born in Sydney.

So what’s the actual dress you wear back in Pakistan? one of our friends asked eyeing my clean shiny dupatta and shalwar qameez and sitting beside me shum in her usual denim and shirt.
Hee he, umm…well our actual national dress is shalwar qameez but some of the people love dressing the way they do I answered. Well! Shum jumped up, “I would never dream of wearing shalwar qameez for long even in Pakistan”! she said, Which was so true I thought, visualizing the skirts and those beautiful dresses she wore. (I actually annoyed her, but it was one of my silent campaigns against globalization that I won’t change my culture no matter what!)

Of all the things we do together some are really important and that is thinking of our futures, like I have the oldest written-down-mission on a paper I have saved for long time which Starts with the heading that says “MY MISSION OF LIFE” and ends with a commitment which goes like this , “A Daughter, A sister, A citizen and A woman must remembered!” And as for shum!!! well, yes she has her plans too, few months back she was off to start a huge Asian network and which was later changed, then she was planning to start a new project, a month ago she was planning on going to off to Canada, and now?.........well now she says she would see when the time comes!
Coming to the point it’s hard to match the two of us, but you know what we think? We think we are a match made in heaven! Both of us are inseparable and would never dream of leaving the wonderful friendship. We respect our diversities and love our selves and besides you know what they say, contrast is always good!!!

After all, we are same-in a different way!!!

July 26, 2008 | 3:15 AM Comments  0 comments

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