Friends Beyond Expectation

With this recent 5 days break coming to an end, I realized that the friends I made online for the past years are really and truely friends beyond expectation. I spent my break in Kuantan for 2 nights in a friend's house. And this friend is not just any ordinary friend I made from school or a party. She was a friend from cyberspace, and now she's one of my closest and best friend that I love so much.

To start it all off, I made my first online friend from Pahang at the age of fifteen. I remembered the night where I was all by myself, downstairs in the living room, cold and dark , with only the computer screen lighting up straight to my face, and I was chatting away with a stranger from another state, who seemed (and still is) friendly, warm hearted and nice. A stranger he might be, I find him interesting and easy to talk to. His friend suddenly wanted to get to know me, and I somehow knew she can be trusted. That all happened in 2006. Now, almost 5 years later, we're still in contact with each other and have met tonnes of times in "real life". I guess there were two important values to be taken here, to be true of yourself to whoever you're talking to, and be totally honest about it.

I learned a lot from these two people that with truth and honesty, a person can have an everlasting relationship between them. Yes, some might find it hard to believe that the people we meet online can be a lie and a hoax. But when there comes a time the small voice inside your head says that this person is really telling you the truth, you just have to give in and keep the conversation going on until a relationship is born between the two of you. Honesty, to me, however, is a bit risky when it comes to something like this. You might be ashamed of what you might share with the other person, or you might hold back to something you really have the urge to tell. For me, what  I did to those two people was to be myself and develop honesty in that friendship I'm having.

Up to this very moment, I'm really amazed at how technology (Internet, in particular) has changed the way people connect with each other. Just by sharing pictures on Flickr, or even drawings of your favorite Manga character on deviantART, people all across the nation can instantly click with one another and develop a relationship through a common interest. Now I see that even by creating a blog can do so, too. *wink