Reunited with "the lost"

Ciao a tutti e bentornati sul mio blog!

Da adesso in poi, scriverò i miei post in italiano.

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    Lol, no. I am joking. I have just started memorising le parole italiane from scratch.

It has been a long time since I wrote my last post. Sorry for the absence but I had to face my hectic real life. Reviewing my old posts, I cannot believe I had the audacity to write in English despite my poor proficiency in foreign languages, particularly in writing essays. Meh. Don't care.

The spread of coronavirus, I did not expect it ended up like this.

When China declared the nation-wide epidemic, I was like, "chill, dude... there isn't a single case reported yet, corona can't find its way here." (that was when people were bragging about how unconquerable Indonesians were–typical obnoxious braggarts) and it went rapidly from zero until today... 72,347 cases.

In my whole life, I had never thought of being quarantined for approximately four months. Hahaha. Boring online classes and lessons that were barely understandable. Sorry my lecturers, you have worked hard but my brain just could not process them. However, I would like to express my gratitude for those As! I swear you guys are the best lecturers that I have ever met (and the most hated lecturers ever as my friends said)

Isn't it a long prologue?! Coincidentally I rambled a lot and did not realise that I have gone off my current topic.

So, what I have been doing?

Of course, sleeping.

WELL, WHO DOESN'T SLEEP? Every human being has a need of sleep.

During this quarantine period, I reminisced about those good old days, more precisely in my "snailmailing" era. Afterwards, I immediately explored the old letters that I store in a plastic container box and read them one by one. I opened all of my social media and started writing down their names on the search bar. Imagine how anxious I was to wait for their responses.

They began to answer one by one. There was this one girl with whom I had a nice conversation all nights through Skype 7 years ago. In 2017, I tried to write to her e-mail and got this response instead: 

cried in despair

The universe worked in its incredible ways, I eventually found this lovely girl on Facebook (desperately endeavoured to recall her surname) and began to say hi. Her reaction was unbelievably priceless!

The following day, I got fueled up by excitement and utilised my stalking skill in a proper way.

Well, I have to show off to you that it did really work!

I received these two letters from Malta in 2014 and only knew her given name, "Nikki-Lee" since she did not mention her surname. You can tell how hard it is to find one Maltese girl whose name is "Nikki-Lee" when there are plenty of Nikki-Lees exist in Malta?!

Thanks to the internet, she was featured in a well-known website for her painting exhibition. I recognised her because she used to draw some adorable characters at describing how her uniforms looked like in her letters. I reckoned that she was going to be an excellent artist one day!

Look at her reaction...! How hilarious it was that she frantically apologised as soon as she knew that I am an old penpal of hers :D

Besides, I managed to find my British penpal. I was to stun her on another level!

Long story short, I was ultimately able to get others' contacts and we are still constantly talking until now, even though the rest are hard to find due to the unavailability of their social networks (I'm still trying as I still keep their addresses)

Finally yet importantly, I might have taken them for granted, but as I get older I have a grasp of how friendships are meant to be cherished. This message is written to you, that you have to maintain them as possible as you can. It for-sure takes time, yet truly worth the effort. Don't forget to reconnect with your old friends, you will have no idea how delighted they are to not be overlooked <3