Online friends are real friends
This blog post is on a friend who I've known for almost ten years. We've been writing mails to each other since we were not even teenagers, when I was dreaming to be a politician and he was dreaming to be a Math professor. Then we lost contact for three years and got reconnected just earlier this year. Our friendship is maintained through mails and we never actually 'talked'. It doesn't mean we don't share everything with each other though. Like I'd tell him about my small business and he'd tell me about his tiny goofies. Being his friend is one of the most blessing things in my life, so I think I gotta write about what I've learned after being a friend of his.
All kinds of facts. I learned about the history of Korea and the relation between it and other countries. I learned about how snow might contain acids and other pollutants. I learned about what a traditional Korean altar would look like, as well as the reason why they would avoid red, which was so strange to me. I learned that there are a lot more to learn about this world, something that we never think about it until someone keeps wondering about.
Friendship takes time and patience. Two years ago, I thought I was the most stupid, and most stubborn person on earth. This year, I learned that I was both stupid and brave, and patient. Now I know that we'll overcome all kinds of hardships and we should live our life with all of our extremes, even though it was extreme stupidity. In the end, what we regret is what we didn't do in the past right?
What a sun might think. Just watched a movie recently and, looking back at what we talked, I saw someone in that movie. I learned that sometimes the best way to cheer someone is stopping saying you can do it. A better way is probably giving that person a corner so that he can sit there and stay away from the light. Either way, I think/hope he was strong enough to move on from the sun he used to be.
I remember writing in my journal that I'd never write about him again unless he wrote me back hahah. I'm happy that today I can write about this special friendship xD
Tomorrow he'll be enrolling in the military which he told me he was nothing but unsure about his post :))) I do hope that everything will turn out to be okay and I will try my best to be supportive in a more thoughtful way!^^
-Phuong 🐯