Primary School Mates Gathering
I was initially apprehensive, for we have not met forsuch a long time already. The prospects of having conversations with abrupt ending and the silent meals only make me more cynical about this gathering.
But I was proven wrong.
Looks like time and distance are never, and will never be a barrier to rekindle long-lost friendships. Nor are time and distance solvents that dilute friendships.
We clicked almost immediately. It did not seem that we were once separated and each led vastly different lives. It just seemed that we are all in this long dream, only to find each other and be in each other's company when we wake up.
Yes, we are all back into this dream again. But this shortlived, momentarily "reality" will be a source of motivation for us to wake up from this dream.
A gathering of childhood friends and the exchange of memories are like a major project to complete the 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. We each hold a few pieces of the abyssal memories and it's only when we gather can we then piece our memories together and live our childhood once again.
To me, I am glad that our brain has got limited memory capacity, for it is this limitation that will bring long-lost friends together to recollect our past. It is this limitation that brings people closer to each other, since we all depend on each other to re-live our past, to laugh at all the silly things we had done and the childish reasons for our bickerings.
I remembered how we all wanted time to stop moving during Primary 6 so that we need not part. We all knew, and still know that it is impossible, but we still try to "cheat" time by making a point to meet up once a year to reminisce our primary school days, to bring the past to the present.
Next week, there will be another gathering session. Unfortunately, due to my enlistment I will not be able to attend. But rest assured that I will not forget all the moments -- pleasant and unpleasant -- that we had when I am stuck in Pulau Tekong.
Till we meet again!
Kai Yang, Nicholas, me, Ashika, Ziwei, Min Kai
Min Kai, me, Rachel, Ashika, Ziwei
Rachel, Ziwei, Ashika
But I was proven wrong.
Looks like time and distance are never, and will never be a barrier to rekindle long-lost friendships. Nor are time and distance solvents that dilute friendships.
We clicked almost immediately. It did not seem that we were once separated and each led vastly different lives. It just seemed that we are all in this long dream, only to find each other and be in each other's company when we wake up.
Yes, we are all back into this dream again. But this shortlived, momentarily "reality" will be a source of motivation for us to wake up from this dream.
A gathering of childhood friends and the exchange of memories are like a major project to complete the 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. We each hold a few pieces of the abyssal memories and it's only when we gather can we then piece our memories together and live our childhood once again.
To me, I am glad that our brain has got limited memory capacity, for it is this limitation that will bring long-lost friends together to recollect our past. It is this limitation that brings people closer to each other, since we all depend on each other to re-live our past, to laugh at all the silly things we had done and the childish reasons for our bickerings.
I remembered how we all wanted time to stop moving during Primary 6 so that we need not part. We all knew, and still know that it is impossible, but we still try to "cheat" time by making a point to meet up once a year to reminisce our primary school days, to bring the past to the present.
Next week, there will be another gathering session. Unfortunately, due to my enlistment I will not be able to attend. But rest assured that I will not forget all the moments -- pleasant and unpleasant -- that we had when I am stuck in Pulau Tekong.
Till we meet again!
Kai Yang, Nicholas, me, Ashika, Ziwei, Min Kai
Min Kai, me, Rachel, Ashika, Ziwei
Rachel, Ziwei, Ashika
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