Would you?
“We were all strangers once. Until one of us said hello, and then nothing is ever the same again. The question is, would you still say hello if you knew it’s going to end with a goodbye? Would that temporary moment we have between the words justify it?” — Ika Natassa.
She read those words while scrolling one of her social media, about few weeks ago. They’ve tickled her mind, as always. She didn’t get sleep that night until dawn. Don’t bother to ask, because she had no clue either. All she knows that she couldn’t shut the noise inside her head. It kept rewind few years back, and the IF scenario take turn.
What if she refused to join to her friend’s birthday celebration, would you and her meet in another occasion? What if in two years later, she cancel went to the city where you lived, would you and her finally get along? What if few months later she answered ‘no’ for your question at that bookstore, would you and her still be brokenhearted five years later?
Most of people who knows about their story will say with those pity eyes whom she hated the most, “You were wasting your time, you know?” “How would I know?”, she really want to replied them with that, but she set the default answer with a grin instead. Left the answer hanging in the dead air.
She’s been better, put herself together, tidy the room up, and others and others. But today, they all torn apart. It’s funny, life is too funny to be sad about something. It’s too funny when she think everything will be just fine while It’s not. It’s too funny until you can’t laugh at it. And the worst part, she was the last person who found it out.
It’s been settled. She will finish what she has started, everything. Let’s walk down memory lane and meet the ghost from the past;the kind and the evil one, the happy and the sad moments.
December 3rd, 2019 @septiaherdiani