she left when we were in grade 5. i was shattered. we wrote to each other a few times in the first six months. Soon the letters trickled down. Then one day they just stopped coming. I was growing up, moving on to other things, making new friends. But none had measured up to the bond I felt that i had with rojane.
last year i found her through friendster. i don't know why i was so surprised that she had grown up--was i expecting to see her as i remembered her then? funny. the little brown schoolgirl with the bangs had transformed into this...Lady. and the Lady's rose-petal poise didn't bear any traces of the unassuming candidness that had so endeared her to me then.
noooo!!! the 11-year-old kid in me screamed. bring the old rojane back!
took me some time to realize that i was just...hankering for the past again. wake up beeyatch. people grow up. people change. even i went through those transitions. i told myself that i was glad enough that i met her again. now the text messages are trickling down, but not because of physical distance. when back then we used to think like one person and enjoy the same kids' games, now we've grown into two separate lives. haha! cheesy dialogue.
can't help thinking. had i not met her again, maybe she'd have been elevated to myth status by now. The Friend that Got Away. The Ultimate Kindred Spirit. Eternally 11 years old in my mind.
Reality shatters your ideals, most of the time.
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