Long time, no see

[063] ... [General]

It's nice to meet old friends, out of touch for very long. That's, so long as at least one or both identify each other. I met one after so many years, and though he had changed, was comfortably recognizable. But he recalled meeting one other common factor recently and feeling at a loss on who it could be when he had suddenly turned up and talked to him while shopping. Seems the other guy had gone through a bad patch both physically and otherwise that had robbed off the looks we were used to.

In fact I had to attend an event of a rebuilt house of a known family nearby to my friend's place where he has recently moved in, and had clubbed both. Ironically the two visits, each after a long gap seemed to have things in common.

My memories of that place since childhood was a wide garden in the front dotted with a large tree, a stone bench underneath, a small pond and a lot of flowering plants, with a modest two storey at the rear, marked by a straight flight of stairs to the top floor that looked like an escalator, all of which are now gone to naturally accommodate changed needs of a grown family. The other was the moonlight dinner their family used to host once an year. I think only the second holds possibility still, but times have changed and looks like the ritual is almost forgotten.

It just occurred on the similarity of change, a new structure on the old land, upgraded for the better and an almost unrecognizable form of the other friend as mentioned. May be we feel the same way on encountering a known building from the past that once lived in glory, and now left to dilapidate...

Since afternoon there was an issue saving and syncing the post, which I guessed owed to the cloudy weather that often causes slow network connection, and after much trying succeeded late night to publish.