A couple of years ago, when I was in the airport, about to leave Singapore for my month-long vacation in China and then leave for Canada, I sent an email to a friend of mine, telling her: I wanted to tell you something, but wait when I come back.
I was not trying to tease her or to make her thought I was funny. In fact, when I sent her the email, I was about 5 minutes before the boarding gate was closed, and I was in the lobby that is about 2 minutes of walking away from the boarding gate.
Then I went to China, with no Internet access whatsoever and had a rather peaceful vacation.
When I finally got to Canada and checked my email box, I saw a message from that friend of mine: Don’t keep me in suspense. That is the cruelest thing you can do to someone.
I apologized, not knowing exactly why I received such harsh comments from her. After all, I did have the plan to tell her something, but I was just out of time and afterwards, out of Internet!
I guess our almighty Lord finally gave me an answer. He put me through a similar trial.
This time, I was the one who was told: I want to tell you something, but wait when I come back.
And now, I know what kind of jerk I was at that time.
I am not that much of a religious person to be very honest, nor I am someone who usually believes in retributions. I do things that I deem are necessary and never look back after I’ve done them, for most of the time.
But I guess I was just lucky enough not to be hurt that much by the bad things I’ve committed.
And sometimes, while I thought someone else was the unreasonable one, I turned out to be the bad guy.
I am not sure that friend of mine still reads my blog as we’ve been out of touch for a while, but if she does:
I am sorry for being such an idiot.
