The Life and Times of S

C.W.

This post should have come a few weeks ago, that is, on the actual day that I wrote it on the napkin. Anyway, here it is now. Enjoy.

So I had to attend a long, boring training session ths afternoon at work, and this was right after an event called the February Feast. So, as you can imagine, there was tons of good food and somewhat good company.

So to prevent myself from falling asleep in my chair right under the instructor's nose, I started thinking. About nothing in particular. Random thoughts. Banal, practical things. One thing led to another. And before I knew it I was thinking about my good friend, well, former good friend, C.W.

C.W. and I took a few courses together at university. We then worked together in the same division at work for a couple of years. He has since moved to another another division located in another office in the city. The last few months working with him were kind of awkward. We used to be really good friends. Went to school together in the evenings. Catching up on assignments at our favourite cafe almost every night. Taking coffee break at work together. Email banter all day. Lunch time walks in the summer together. Everyday.

And then one fine day, sometime last summer, it all just stopped. Cold turkey. No more emails or phone calls. No more coffee. Or walks.

Anyway, we email once every few months now. Just to see how the other is doing. I miss our friendship sometimes. But not enough to bother me.

What does bother me is that I never figured out what went wrong. And now its too late.

Alas.

posted by S @ 10:16 AM