A Brief Encounter & Another :


By a twist of fate on my way home tonight, i met 2 friends i lost contact with; on
2 different buses. hah! cliche it may sound, but to quote an old saying,
" it never rains but it pours," it may not be unusual to bump into friends on the
streets, but to meet 2 within the span of one hour and further more on the
2 separate buses i take home daily.. well, what are the chances of that
happening? the even funnier thing is, i was on my way to the barber shop 2 days
after i decided to get it cut but was unable to due to certain NS obligations, again !

the first was someone from my secondary school but which i got to know only
during my bmt, the other an ex-classmate from way back in sec one & two.
i spoke to both ofthem rather briefly but a comment passed by my ex -classmate
got me thinking...

" ... you still look the same... "

it's been a few years since i last met him, and i do think that he looks the
same too. haha.i guess not many people change drastically after those puberty
years. i wonder maybe it's because we have not seen each other for such a long
time that the changes arent obvious? what about people we meet on a daily basis?
sometimes we spot the minor changes how ever every subtle it might be.. but on
other occasions, i realize that i did not notice the most obvious of changes! was it
due to the fact that i'm too used to the person and that i unconsciously recognize
the person instantly ergo leaving out the deduction/recognition stage?

hah, if you were expecting me to write something about maybe how i had changed
character wise.. well, i cant be bothered about it at this point of time.



on a night of brief encounters,
with friends from faraways.
on a night i rather be stone,
and more so, be alone;
these thoughts and friends
they seem to mock
sigh... doing so, in a barber shop.

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