~I have a friend~

I have a friend,who was good in everything.Studies,sports and very gentle yet strong at the same time.Unfortunately,this 'perfect' friend of mine has a illness.Which cost him to repeat fourth year again because of his absenties for his visits to the hospital.He was well the whole year last year and thankfully managed to come into 5th year with us this time.

But his illness(something to do with the blood cells) strikes again...Quite seriously,I heard.Til the extent that he has to stay in the hospital for the whole month of April.Truth to be told,I AM worried sick..He is one of the close friends I managed to make last year,me being the foreigner,and he being a ryuunensei(repeat student?)Until now,when is he coming back,no one knows.

Seriously,we do tend to take things granted in our life.Especially our health.We tend to complain about others,nag non stop etc.Until something bad happens,an omen or should I say a wake-up call in our daily lives that we should be grateful with what we have.We tend to brush off the thought,that what if you knew you were going to die tomorrow,what will you do?Because secretly we just don't want to think about it.But think,what if you were to die tomorrow,will you still complain that my neighbour is the devil from hell?My classmate is such an a** etc??

Be grateful is something we should do everyday,in my opinion.Losing the sense of gratefulness,you lose the sense of seeing the beauty in our daily lives.The warmth of friendship,the excitement etc..

The pics are of my 3rd and maybe last Hanami in Kansai..

Never knew that sunrise could look so beautiful in a city too..