When you just look back

When I look back, it’s been already almost 10 years since I finished my high school. It was in Okinawa, and I was a teenager. In that time I had a friend in the same school; we’re both young and didn’t really know much about the World (although I’m not sure if I do it good enough now), but we’re good friends.

When I was in the final year of the school, I went to the States. One year later, I came back to Japan, and he was already graduated from the school. Unfortunately, we didn’t exchange the contact information, and we lost contact.

Recently, I was surfing on a Japanese SNS, and came across to a person who seemed to be that very same old friend of mine. The key was that he was doing a music and he seems to be still in this field.

The next thing I did was to write him a message, hoping he still remembers me. Next morning, I received an incoming message with a friend request.

It was Friday, and my work was finished. So I started chatting with him in a Twitter-like system in that SNS. Although the medium and technology were different, I could feel he didn’t change much — and I received the same from the other side. After almost ten years, I guess our cores haven’t really been much different.

Of course, there are both sides in the technology; in fact, I think there always is for everything. But it certainly was on positive side that I could contact to him again and he could do the same to me. The distance is quite huge : it used to be we’re 1km away, and now it’s more than 10,000km. But we’re already talking when to meet each other again (probably, and hopefully within this year, 2010).