Day 14 — Someone you’ve drifted away from
erm.. Drifted away frommm…
Hi Gab,
There’s something that always gets in the way of relationships. It happens to many and is probably always the cause of drifted relationship. And that’s probably the reason why we drifted apart too.
That thing is called life.
There’s a season where everything in our lives seems to coincides. We were both students. We go to the same church. We both served in the worship team. We were in the same cell group. We had the same friends. We even had the same phone.
When I think of us, I think of Saturday mornings at your place playing basketball. It was always just 2 of us. Why it was the case, I have no idea. But i remember going to your place every Saturday morning. Playing one on one with you. Getting trashed. Drinking 100 plus. Or orangina. Then going to church together. Having lunch together. And jogging beside you while we were rushing to Pemimpin because your strides were too big! The best part of all of these, was when we played bball with the others.. MUAHAHHA we would be such a great pair. loveeee being in your team.
We were close. It was always comfortable with you. We could go anywhere together, do anything together.
You were a brother that I never had. A loyal friend. With my lousy relationship maintaing skills, you probably did most of the work trying to keep our relationship together even as our schedule drifted us apart.
You went to NS, I went to Uni. Then I started working while you considered going overseas to study. We now went to separate church, left youth ministry. No longer played in the worship team together. It took much more to meet up and have meals together. Or probably have common topics because we were in such a different stage of our lives. But you are persistent, I don’t think that ever stopped you from trying to keep in contact and all. Noticed I said you? Because I know I was really bad at that.
Eventually you went to Aust, and our communications… ceased..
It’s ok. Well, for someone who really didn’t do much, I can’t complain much can I? =P But I understand that this is what happens and it’s ok. We have different seasons, different period of our life. In fact, it’s quite impossible to insist that things cannot change.
Our lives may not meet that often, and our communications are kinda thin. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t friends. Nor stop caring about each other as much as we had in the past. It doesn’t mean that memories fade. It still means that we still wish the best for each other. It doesn’t mean that we ceased being friends.
So, it seems perfect that at this end of the year. As we toast to friends. You are remembered.
Love,
Ruoling
