Albert Herdianto Widjojo
When accompanying my wife shopping while walking in the morning, someone waved from a distance. While replying his gestures, I tried to remember his face.
He finally approached and greeted me, we then also shook our hands happily. Apparently, he was a schoolmate in high school. After a few conversations about other friends, he asked about my inactivity on social media and of course with my writings that had not appeared for a long time. Ah, apparently he often reads my writing even though he never commented. I said that indeed I had kept my distance from social media long enough.
Apparently, he was curious about my reason. With a joke, I said that I was isolating myself to meditate in the cave for years. I continued later that, after all, people would rather post or respond to various noise; politics, celebrity issues etc. or showing everything about them or competing to show quotations from scripture verses, while I myself am less interested in all that.
Jokingly in a mocking tone, he said that expressing self with everything we owned was worth and natural while sharing quotes from holy verses that were well known were good for reminding each other and maintaining faith, rather than just talking about spirituality that was confusing as I did. I said that his point of view was very reasonable and I was indeed a person who was out of the normal. I say that I like to talk about spirituality because we as individuals should foster relationships with the Divine and not merely as a crowd controlled by religion and its leaders. Then with a laugh, I patted his shoulder while apologizing if the distinction according to my perspective has caused a problem for him. Shortly after that, we separated.
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Question of
Are you active on social media?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Do you often meet former schoolmates by chance?
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Yes
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No
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I only know a couple of my classmates … some of them have already died
Yeah! That’s the fact, my friend. Some of them seem often gather around and some others gathered in another place.
A nice and interesting story friend
Thanks a lot, Lado. Daily miracle for me…
Someone came up to me a few years ago, tell me of how glad he was to have finally found me. He was an old school friend from kindergarten on up. I usually can recognize all the students that i have ever around. That time i could not place him lol.
Wow! That’s an impressive story.
Since last five years, most of the groups in my WA are the alumnus of all schools that I have been students; from kindergartens to college. They always have some activities, from reunion to take trips, from play ping pong to gathering for dinners, and so on.
Very Interesting story and image.
Thanks for your visit and compliment, Branka.
Haven’t been on social media for a long time. I hardly posted much anyway when I was on… I guess the combination of just a quarter to say one fifth of my post here has more words than I wrote on social media… lol
I’ve former classmates living around me, funny, we hardly bump into each other
I think some of the social media has become less popular than before even they always innovate their page and features. Maybe the increasing of the kinds of them also influence.
I suspect that you and all of your former classmate always go by teleport.
I think I’ve to agree … more and more of them are coming out, so definitely affects.
Oh… shhh… that’s suppose to be a secret …
we all know jitsu … we attended Ninja schools
;p
That’s so cool! If I were young, I would definitely go to school there too!
But hey… Now I suspect that you who peeked at me when I snored with mouth wide open last night. My owl who in charge to guard the house has reported that there was a ninja enter the house through the roof.
If you want to have a chat with me, why don’t we make an appointment to do it in the social media?
Oh, we don’t have age limit …. we also have one for elders over 100 years old, you can join that class!!
I’m sure that is not me … maybe its the paparazzi Ninja branch … they love to collect black materials of important people.
That’s great, my friend. Then I’ll join the class. Who’ll gonna be the teacher? You? Uuu… I’ll be so happy!
Paparazzi? Upzzz… What they intention exactly to take pictures of my open mouth? Is that will profit them?
Nope, I didn’t have the cert to … lol
Urgh, I won’t know how the paparazzi department does, maybe they love collecting photos of important people in their not-so-glamorous state
Well, I will pray for them to get the best profit.
Very Interesting story Albert, I love Bringles to eat 🙂
Thank you very much, Hamza. Btw, what is Bringles?
You’re Welcome Albert. 🙂
Purple Vegetable in the Picture are brinjals sorry Spells Mistake 😛
Oh, I see… brinjal or eggplant…
well, no problem my friend.
Interesting story and an awesome image! I haven’t been very active on social media lately either.
Thank you so much, Ellie. What’s the reason you have been less active on social media lately?
I was travelling a bit during the summer and I am busy with other things, so I don’t spend that much time in front of the computer in general. I even started painting in my free time lately. 😀
Ahh… I see… Isn’t that means you’ve little bit boring about such things?
I am only active to keep up with a few family members and in doing that I have ran into former classmates.
I have visited your fb page couple of month ago but it seems you have been inactive for a long time. I have even asked for friendship at that time but don’t know if you have accepted it because I’m also rarely logged in.
I do not post a lot there, mostly look and read others posts. Sorry but I have not checked requests lately.
I really really understand…
I don’t think I would even recognize anyone I went to school. with.
If there were friends in the past who recognized me, maybe because I was a popular boy in those days. lol