Once in one's life~

I checked my facebook feed and I saw this familiar face from university. He does not use social media that much so I was surprised that he posted something. It's been years since the last time we communicated. Maybe it's been 8 years already? I don't know. What I know is that he was my classmate on most of my subjects. We were not really close but we were on speaking terms. We greeted each other normally. There were times that he teased me. Well, most of the time. He liked to annoy me but since I have a fun personality, I annoyed him in return. All I could remember is that he always teased and annoyed me during class. But I never got offended. Well, maybe once. Just once. On other times, I had fun because I got to annoy him in return.

He was pretty much famous because he was bright. He always got the highest scores in our major subjects but it did not bother me. He was friendly so, I was not intimidated. I admired his consistency in academics, instead. I was actually proud because I won over him once. I bet he did not remember that I had a higher score than him on one Math subject and I was reigned the topnotcher for that exam. Those were the days that I had confidence in school because you know, I always loved Math. 

I checked if I had a conversation with him on messenger and I noticed that we did chat with each other before, but it was just a random conversation. It's funny that I wanted to message him now because why not? Reconnecting is not such a bad idea. I just want to know how is he doing these days. The last time I recall he went to different places abroad. Well, why not talk to him before I get married in a few months time, right?

I sent him a friendly message. Just hello and how are you, something like that. I am not surprised that he replied back because he was never a snob. I remembered I asked for his help before because I was about to fail one major subject. I swallowed my pride and ask him through messeger to tutor me but he turned me down. Instead, he gave me his exams for me to review. I told him that I did not have difficulty in understanding the lesson but why did I fail? He said that, you only know that you understand the lesson if you could explain it at any circumstances. No matter what the scenario is, you should be able to explain it well. That's how you know that you understand it. That's actually a very logical explanation. You should not only know the half of it. You should know all of it to understand it. And of course, you should be able to relay the lesson to others without difficulty. It has been years but I still remember what he said that time.

He said that he is doing well and that he is studying in Europe. He asked about me so I told him that I am working and Im already 4years in the company and that I am engaged. He congratulated me then we continued to have a small talk.

While we were exchanging our stories through messenger, I realized how someone can once become a part of your everyday life then, in a few years time, you will realize that that person is not a part of your life anymore. You knew each other because you had something in common. You share the same university, same class, same set of friends, same subjects but as the time goes by, all of them are now memories. He was never beyond as the annoying classmate but even if he is beyond that, will it be any different? There is a point in our lives that these people like him just met you to be there at that purpose. And nothing more than that. We meet people, we lose them, we move on and meet other people again. And the cycle goes on and on. But you know what? That person brought something to me. He brought be a lesson, a memory that I will never forget. That conversation we had will last a lifetime. Maybe in the future I will just say, I knew him once in my life~ and that's it. 

People change, people grow, we were never be the same as before. But one thing is for sure. Memories never fade. It will always be in the heart forever.

Maybe the last time I saw him was he already graduated while I stayed in the university for another year because of my thesis. But that was 6 to 7 years ago, I think. I saw him chatting with his friends while I passed through him together with my boyfriend, looking for a place to eat. Our eyes met, we smiled then our eyes parted.