And it made me a little sad too, even though it was on MSN. In a warped sense, it was comforting to know that I'm not the only one who feel this way. Evidently, while Ding* wishes to join her family in Vancouver, she can't bear to leave her friends in Hong Kong. "My whole life is in Hong Kong!" she laments. And then came the story of how she and her best friend, the one she grew up with, had drifted apart. And how her tears wouldn't stop for she couldn't understand how this could happen. "We used to be able to share everything, but now we just can't communicate like we used to...it's so lonely, this feeling..."
What Ding said left me wondering if it were possible for anyone to be detached from any form of attachment to another person or even, a group of people. 5 seconds later, I gave up wondering for I figured that it's almost impossible. The logic is simple: I'm already missing TBF on his 8th day of vacation.
And I also figured that each one of us has probably suffered from "the friend who drifted away" scenario; as with some of us who had been the friend who had drifted apart. And no matter who it is, someone has probably had a sleepless night (or a hundred) because a friend is no longer in our lives (and I don't mean passing on).
And if our attachment to our friends is so intense, what more our attachment to our family?
On a separate note, today is national Eat-With-Your-Family day. Coincidentally, it is also the first day of the GSS (short for Great Singapore Sale). But I also wondered, for one second, how many people would forgo family time for bargains at the mall.
* name has been changed for privacy issues
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