(Karla is Yam’s best friend. She visited Yam twice before Yam went to Manila for treatment. She calls Yam by phone and sends text messages regularly. She again visited Yam in the hospital before her trip to the US where she sent this article to be read during Yam’s funeral services)
Hello po sa lahat! I know that this day is sad for you, and I want all of you to know that it’s sad for me too. We lost a really special person, but it’s also good because she was really going through a hard time, and now she got her rest.
Eunice or Yama is a great girl, she was a good daughter, a good sister, a good niece, a good cousin, a good granddaughter, and a good friend.
Hi, I’m her best friend Karla, we didn’t spend much time together, not like any best friends, that been together for years, we became best friends because of the telephone, yes the telephone, I love that gadget.
When the news has spread that she got leukemia on the starting of the summer of gr.4, I didn’t know about that. The time I got the news is when gr.5 started, I was kind of shocked.
When I got home, I called her, she said it was true, since then I started calling her all the time, each call we became closer, honestly, we weren’t that close when we were in gr.4, sure we spent some moments together in that grade, because we were seat mates once, one time I asked her if she knows the movie “Sound of Music” and she said yes, we started singing all the songs in “Sound of Music” together, especially the song, Edelweiss.
Through gr.5, Joy has been home schooled, I keep on asking ma’am Tan if she took the test already, but I know that she will pass, do you know that Joy is one of the best students, she’s really smart, I have to tell you the truth, in Gr. 3 I kept on being number 2 in the ranking because she’s always number 1, but I wasn’t irritated, because she really deserved that rank because, she’s a really good student.
During gr.5 and the summer after gr.5, that’s when Joy and I really got close, she said she’s getting better and maybe she can go to school in gr.6, I was really happy, because I can see her again, and continue being close friends.
When the first day of gr.6 arrived, I looked forward in meeting joy, she said that she had short curly hair by that time, when I saw her she hugged me and I hugged her back, it was like I’ve been her best friend for years.
Through gr. 6 she went on and off of school, I usually get worried if she doesn’t go to school, so I usually call her house and request an explanation.
Joy was really a great friend to me, she was the first true friend I ever had, she made me realize that you can still find a friend that will be there for you all the time.
When I have a problem at school I usually call her and she will do things to comfort me like, make me laugh, or say things that are in the bright side, that’s the way she treats me like a really good friend, that’s why I can’t help myself to return her ways of being a good friend to me.
So when she asks me to call, I call, and listen to what she wants to say to me, like her problem about some guy named Whiler, please don’t ask any questions about that.
Just to clear things up Joy was really a good friend to me and a good friend to others too, so I can’t help but cry, that my one and only best friend is gone, she was the one who made my gr. 6 year happy, when one of my classmates brought up the topic about me again, that’s really true, she made me happy through grade 6 year.
She was the one who helped me with all my obstacles through the year, and I’m really disappointed about myself because I wasn’t there for her when she was in the time of need, because I had to go here in America.
She was one of my lights when I’m in the dark.
She was always there with me, she was the one who made me stand up again when I fell, I really wanted to tell her that.
So I made this speech to have the chance to say this to her right this moment, that I really appreciate her for being with me.
I wish that God will watch over her when she’s up there, and I wish she will still watch over me and all the people she loved and cared for, and to know that she’s always there for us.
That’s why I thank her for making this quote come true “Friends are like stars, even if you can’t see them sometimes, they’re always there”
Sorry if this speech is kind of messed up, and hard to understand, I wrote it hurriedly, because it was already 2:12 am when I wrote this, but I hope you caught up at the ending, thank you for listening.
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