A little something that happened on Tuesday that made me very happy
I had dinner with a friend of mine: she was my very first friend in secondary, which meant so much to me because I was struggling with a brand new school full of strangers and unfamiliar language (I was just starting to learn Cantonese at the time), and she just looked at me and like that we were friends, best friends even, for a while.
Over the years we drifts and came back together, because that's life. We ended up in the same university and tried to do weekly, or at least monthly lunches, but neither of us was in a mentally well enough place to commit to that. After a lot of ghosting, a lot of bitterness accumulating on my end, and a very honest but heavy conversation, I told her that we should prioritise figuring out ourselves, but I'll be here when she's ready.
She asked me out for dinner to catch up and as a birthday treat, and this was our first proper sit down in like a year. It was great, we talked about old things and new (she graduated and got a pretty well-paying job that she's really happy with, and got a boyfriend), and overall it was just really nice to get to catch up with this very important friend to me.
But she pulled out a gift for me, and that actually rendered me speechless and nearly to tears.
So here's the thing. One of my love language is gift-giving. I love specific personalised giving gifts, I love receiving gifts. But as someone who has a very pragmatic family and who's birthday is during the summer holiday, I don't really get gifts. Which is fine and all. I would like gifts, but I'm ok.
Another thing is, I really love the butterfly aesthetic. This isn't something I ever talk about, but it can be observed: I have a lot of butterfly-themed stuff (earrings, pendants, pop sockets, keychain etc), and whenever I draw something for myself, I add butterflies. This is not something I think/expect people to know about me, it's just my little thing.
So imagine my surprise when she pulled out this butterfly wind chime with the evil eyes on it. On top of that, I also really like blue: purple and maroon are my favourite colours, but I wear a lot of blue irl.
She said she saw this during a trip and immediately went "that's such a *Meraki thing" and got it for me, which just... completely melted my heart
I don't know, it's just nice to have someone think of you
