#07092015

July 9, 2015

Saw an old friend named J****. Its been 5 years since I’ve seen him. 5 years but he hasn’t changed a minute. He’s derailed to a life of selling drugs, moving houses, being in and out of prison, so on and so on.

Let me tell you a bit about J. We attended the same primary school, he joined I’d say around year 4 or 5. That must’ve been at least 2004, or ‘03. We weren’t close at all in primary school but we attended the same secondary school. Nobody knew who was going to what secondary school so we were pleased to see each other, at least one other person that we know in this new environment. We became a lot closer during this period. He defended me when other kids picked on me and I ignored them, he stood up for me. And I didn’t really do much for him in return. There are times he did piss me off, I suppose trying to impress other kids. But all in all, he had a good sense of friendship and some values.

Sadly towards the end of secondary school period, 2010. He derailed when he attempted to score the girl he fancied and failed. I didn’t hear from him again after summer 2010, for many reasons.

I didn’t have facebook, wasn’t big on twitter, msn etc the list goes on. I wasn’t social. 

The past 5 years I’ve only heard rumours about him. He’s only been a character. 

He tells me that he wished he listened in school, and stuck to what he was taught and adhered to a calmer life. He also tells me about fucking all these girls and stating who’s a whore and who’s not and how you can’t live in some places and be a virgin because of all the whores there. One of those places being where I worked and I thought to myself, yet I’m a virgin.

It was crazy seeing him anyway, we’ve exchanged numbers and we’ll speak again. It’s really funny how history repeats itself. Somewhat 10 years ago, I saw him on the bus and our reactions were the same as they were two days ago on Saturday 5/09/2015.