Izza
A friend who goes way back. We've been close since February 2023 -- over three years of staying in touch, and with Izza it never feels like effort. It's just how we are.
How We Met
Same school, same era. Izza was part of the world that existed before startups, before any of the chaos. We go back to the classroom days, the school events, the group chats, all of it. That's the foundation of everything.
The Check-In Culture
This is what makes Izza different from a lot of people. We have this thing where we'll go a while without talking -- life gets busy, exams happen, whatever -- and then one of us will just reach out. "Just generally man long time" or "Wat happ?" and boom, we're right back into it. No awkwardness, no "why haven't you texted me," just a genuine check-in that picks up exactly where we left off.
That's rare. Most people let friendships die when the daily contact stops. Izza doesn't. I don't. We have this unspoken agreement that the friendship is always there, and a quick "long time" message is all it takes to reactivate it. It's like the friendship has a save state -- no matter how long you've been away, you load right back in exactly where you left.
The School Talk
Even after we ended up in different places, we'd talk about school stuff. Izza once said "Come to mine school" and I replied with "I'll change school" -- obviously joking (mostly), but it shows that the bond was strong enough that the idea of being in the same school again was genuinely appealing. We missed being in the same place.
What We Talk About
Everything and nothing. School, life, what's going on, what's not going on. The conversations range from deep to completely meaningless and both kinds matter equally. We've gone out for dinner when we're in the same city, had random check-ins that turn into hour-long conversations, and shared the kind of updates that only matter to people who actually care about your life.
What Izza Means to Me
Three years of conversations is a whole relationship documented in text. Izza represents the friendships that didn't just survive distance -- they actively thrived. The check-in culture, the ease of picking up where we left off, the genuine care -- that's what friendship looks like when it's built on something real. Not proximity, not convenience, just two people who actually give a damn about each other.