I am who we are

As you can see, this is not an old picture. But people who are in this picture were my best classmates in my middle school years and we are like a family now. Nobody can tell how we changed as time passed, from appearance to the individual inner world. Still we are together no matter how things go differently around us. Just like the saying: United we stand, divided we fall.
It all started from the fall in 2000 when we were 12 or 13 years old. I can hardly remember how we got to know each other that well. We were always the few students who performed great in all kinds of exams. Four of us worked together in mathematics. Two of us was a couple once a time. We quarreled for small stuffs, we cried for feelings, and of course that we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
And when it comes to the year we are in now, two of us are studying abroad in America, three of us are taking their graduate lives in China and the last two work their lives. It is hard to say that how we interact each other's life. We can only say that we are grateful that there is something which guide us together, being friends and existing as a family. I do know that they are the ones who will always stand in my back supporting me whenever I need them and they are the reason why I can survive all the negative feelings when I am alone here in a foreign country. Sometimes I wonder if I could get any chance to meet someone like them. Or maybe it is such a long dream that I do not notice it's reality.
Even if this is a dream, we still stand in the front of our school gate. We smile, under the sunlight, among the breeze, like the endless summer.

There's a place we used to be
There's a face I used to see
There's a picture with you by my side
There's a moment that I want to find.

I don’t know where to start
Or how to begin
But I know I love you still.