Unsent Letter

      While cleaning up some things found on my drawer, I chanced upon finding an old Harry Potter-branded envelope with a sticker-picture of me used as a closing for its lid. The letter, in fact, was an old letter I wrote for a friend of mine who lives overseas a few years ago. However, it was left unsent after failing to do so (despite having known that I could have my mom sent it for me in the post office near hers). Instead it was left hidden among my other unused things tucked away inside that decade-old plastic drawer of mine.

     We lost communication after a rudely abrupt overseas call back in 2003 and a silently lost connection through Facebook early a year ago.

   I may have found him in some other web domain but everything's still not crystal clear as of now.

I rather not read this letter because I guess I said what I wanna say to him that time and reading it myself may lose the reason why I wrote a letter to him in the first place.

    That time, I was still feeling a little bit homesick. I've had in the past sent letters to my friends abroad (back in the time, most of them don't have their own email addresses while MySpace and Facebook are yet to become a global phenomena). I've sent him at least one letter, but after the abrupt phone call (because I ran out of load), I immediately wrote a letter to him apologizing for what happened (basically that's what was written in the leter anyway so I didn't bother reading it now).

     We had this firm friendship, because maybe of us being the only Asians in class who also happens to be neighbors next door, it gave us a sense of belonging amidst the differences in our personalities. He's a warfreak, i'm a pacifist; he's loves soccer, I was about to love soccer; He likes white shirts, I like green shirts. In addition, he pretty much reminds me of an old friend of mine who happens to be half-Japanese, half-Filipino. Thus the reason I managed to get along with his rough kind of attitude.

    Nowadays, I could still see the very same of personality he posseses to a certain some one I know, not just in physical appearance, but also in his "maangas" kind of traits.