Forgotten Friendship

Have you ever counted how many friends do you have now?

Have you ever counted how many people do you currently know?

We had these friends or acquaintances that have entered our lives, since kindergarten age to school age then working age. Some of them are still kept in touch 'til today while the others that we didn't share many experience with, may be forgotten...

Today, I have met someone I used to know. 

On the way back home, I was getting down from the bus while he was standing at the same bus stop.

We made eye contact. He looked at me. His face seemed familiar to me but I wasn’t curious enough to react something. As I was passing him, he waved at me to say hi. Our conversation started since then…

I couldn’t recall his name, nor did he remember mine. So we continued our conversation by “reintroducing” ourselves to each other. We both remembered that we were at the same university.

He remembered the faculty which I was in but I couldn’t remember his.

We tried to recall how we knew each other but it was equally hard for both of us. We then stopped a useless effort before turning the conversation into news exchanging. When it was time to say goodbye, we wished the other good luck and walked away with smiles…

At the moment when I am writing this line, I still don’t know how we know each other but I know that

it feels so good to be remembered,

it feels so good to be greeted,

it feels so good to be wished and smiled at,

it feels so good to know that my friendship with the person was kept in his/her memory despite it became misty with time.

It happened to me many times when I ran into someone I knew or remembered but I still had no enough courage to say hi to those persons just because I was afraid to be forgotten.

I was glad that he had a big courage to walk toward me and say hi by ignoring the fact that he might be forgotten. 

He made me feel good and gain another unit of “smile”.

He made me realized many people who entered my life. Despite differences in nature, way of living and value, we have shared a similar concept of friendship, smile, remembrance, and good intention once we met again. This brings my heart an inexplicable joy. I might be forgotten by someone but many other people didn’t make me feel so.

I must admit that to people’s eyes, I often see the world in a negative way. This is the first personal article (and probably the last) that expressed my joy (which is quite distinct from my nature).  However, I am happy that there is a small unit of bliss, positive thinking and smile that come up in my mind, right now. 😊

Thank you Khun Ong or P’Ong who did say hi to me and inspired me to create this article.

Pour tout les gens que je connais et que j’ai connu
To all whom I know and used to know
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23.09.2010

  

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