After all those years
“What a small world”, as the famous expression says. It has been almost five years since we saw each other. I am referring to my friend who I’ve known five years ago and we only met thrice. Most of our communications were through phone calls and emails since we live far away from each other. First meeting was when she was pregnant and Kyle was six months old. When we visited her and she was pregnant then. My friends in AlexanderCity in fact decided to give her a baby shower but never did realized because she went to an early labor and I didn’t even pay a visit to her because of the distance and I can’t drive then. I actually knew her through my friend’s friend who happens to be a friend of hers. Isn’t it confusing? But guess what everything has a reason.
Second meeting was during one of our friend’s house warning in (Wetumpka) and her daughter was two years old then. We called each other by our first names and married names never did get interested to know our maiden names for all we knew that we are Filipino and that’s what matters most. We keep up with each other once in awhile through hi-tech communications hehehe. But just recently for almost five years as a friend, we had found out that we have same last name “dela Pena” which is my last name when I was single meanwhile it’s her middle name before she got married. How amazing is that! It was then when I asked her to view our photos in Friendster so that she can view Kyle’s recent photos. Then she saw my full name as it appears on my profile page. She was shocked and surprised about my last name because we have same last names. I can’t believe it either.
God knows I was so excited when I found out that we are related!!! I definitely claim it that we are related! To where and how I would say “somehow” we are related. It would be more interesting to do genealogy research in order to find our roots. It was so cool. There was something about – a feeling of comfort when we get in touch with each other.
We finally met again few weeks ago in one of my friend’s house warming in Alexander City with her beautiful daughter Rachel wherein both of our siblings got along pretty well. I can’t wait to see them again…. We are not just only kababayan but we are indeed relatives!!! How cool is that…. It’s because of Friendster… “Close kami sa Friendster connect”.
