i don't always get to see my friends or spend enough time with them... and often, years may pass before i meet some of them again. these days, distances play a main crucial factor... but perhaps it is more appropriate to attribute the rare opportunities for meeting and building up one's friendships to life-circumstances...?!
tonight, i got to see an old friend whom i knew from primary school... she was my class-partner methinks (someone you hold hands with lining up for assemblies or whatnots) for the first 2 years we were in school before she left to go to england with her family for some years and returned to continue studying in another school and we met again in the same secondary school... and also during dance classes at Sylvia McCully's (i really miss those ballet classes; for some unknown reasons i didn't join the school's dance group but devoted my time in gymnastics and injuring myself alot instead... which on hindsight is a big mistake) and finally we were classmates once more for a brief few months in JC... before i left for the unknown for many years...
w-e and family are up for her sis, xy's, graduation in a week's time... and it's really nice to get to know her and her sis and family a little better... given all the time and distances... we have lost touch for a few years and it was certainly good to catch up... over more than 8 years or so?!... but you know, that's rather normal in my life... i wonder how i cope sometimes.
apparently, we still look pretty much the same... hmm?! ... and i suppose much of our core personality remained the same?!... quite a few people have mentioned this to me on separate occasions and i suppose, they might be right... although some bits of me have changed with all the crazy experiences i've lived through... but it's amazing how different our life courses have paved out... she, already working and carving out what would be a remarkable exposure and set of professional experiences for something that would be suitable in both public and private sectors' management and i? well... contemplating about life as an academic is scaring me a little... (i don't think i am autistic enough actually... i have self-diagnosed ADHD) and i am wondering what other skills do i really have to offer the rest of the world? maybe i'll learn how to grow organic blueberries... and lavender!
in any case, it's great to get privy to other people's family... because you know them a little better indirectly... where their quirkiness came from and why they might be they way they are... you know, the genetics apart from the influential environmental factors! and of course... i was happily transported back home, albeit transiently, by some home-made dishes prepared by her mum and aunt (who actually brought some authentic sauces all the way from singapore!)... that, for me, is something really special... for even having been away for so long... there are still many things i miss about where i used to call home... and it's a bizarre kind of home-sickness if you really want to know.
after dinner, we strolled through the meadows and bade goodbye... maybe we'll catch up again in the week... maybe in a few years' time... maybe... but i am glad we had a lovely catch-up this time, even though it was short.
oh very lovely! was trying to figure out who the person was until i saw the initials! haha.
Posted by: dsd on Sunday, 19 June, 2005 at 03:18 hrsI used to be rather close to her - I even went to her house to play once. We planted a small ginger in the soil. It really is strange how we come and go out of people's lives.
Posted by: monoceros on Sunday, 19 June, 2005 at 04:17 hrsi don't know how close i am to her (or vice versa)... but we've crossed paths in life a few times... i only really got to know her better in JC but then, that too, was brief. i do enjoy talking to her though and i suppose we share dancing as a common interest... maybe someday i'll get to build up the friendship a little more... perhaps. one never knows. yes it's strange how friendships grow (stronger or weaker etc.)...
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