Why the long face?

My friends and I just had drinks at Cocktails & Dreams, a bar we usually go to during weekdays. The others decided they wanted to splurge on some fast food before going home, so off we went to the 24-hour McDonald's round the corner.

As he put down his tray, a friend asked me, "Why the long face?"

I looked up at him and didn't realize my expression was sad. I looked sad! Worried. Stressed. Why the long face? The question lingered in my head as I failed to say something witty.

"Come on, man." he started, in his best supporting actor voice. "When I was young, I dreamed up of this life we're living now. We're earning. We can go out any night we want. We're 'bachelors', man!"

He was right. We all have great personalities. We have promising careers. We are young. We had some money. We are healthy. We had active social lives. We take killer pictures in certain angles. And earlier that night, we made plans for physical activities to keep trim: boxing the next day (as one of us is a boxing coach), and then a game of badminton the day after that. We were practically living "the life" we see on TV!

So why the long face?

That night, we took some pictures of our trip at McDonald's and uploaded it in our Twitter and Instagram accounts. I took another look at our pictures and I smiled.

Yes, my job is stressful and keeps my mind occupied almost all the time. Not to mention fears for the future. But I realized then that there is nothing to worry about as long as I have these guys.