Friendship with Sel

Generations nowadays are luckier than our oldies. Just imagine talking real-time to someone across the sea now compared to our oldies who are sending letters to their friends abroad and waiting for the reply after a week or worst, months!

I've been an online chatter freak at one point in my life admittedly. By the time i got bored doing it, I already gained friends and one of them is Sel from Turkey.

Our friendship started when he was finishing his bachelor's degree. English was not their primary language but he has to write his defense papers. I thought him some basics about English, correct him when he's wrong (he's actually encouraging me to do that) and defining words that he wants me to define for him.

The help even extended to his love life. There was a time that he and his girlfriend broke up and got back after sometime. He asked me if giving her a necklace is fine and I told him yes and a lot more worries from him. We lost communication for a while as he has to serve his military duty.

A year after, while updating my blogs, he suddenly appeared on the Yahoo Messenger asking me how am I doing. He told me that he is now a CPA. He got his Masteral's degree after serving in the military. And most especially, he still have the same girl in his life. After seven long years, he said.

That's good to know. But what's touching of all is when he told me he considers me as her teacher [I feel old!). Not just in English but to a lot of things. And he even said that he is grateful for our friendship. That I am still there and that I still remember him after all these years.

He is just one of my many friends online. Nowadays, its possible to have a friend that you haven't seen yet but already established a connection with.

I hope you have one, too! :)