Day 22: Letter

A letter to someone who has hurt you recently

I’ve decided to change the topic to something more appropriate to the times because truth be told, I am in a good place right now and there isn’t someone who has hurt me recently. So there.

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Dear colleagues,

When my office friends left, I was devastated. I didn’t know how to deal with all of them leaving at almost the same time. But they had to move on to something better for them.

Being alone, I can deal with. It was not having “my people” in the office that really bothered me. As you may have discovered, I am a very social person. Sure, I had my old work buddies from Manila but it wasn’t the same as having people within the proximity. One of them asked if there wasn’t anyone that I can be friends with. I didn’t really know you guys well enough. So I replied, no.

I wasn’t planning on joining you for lunch. You ate really late. And I was so used to eating at 11:30 or 12nn that I didn’t think I’d survive until 1:30 or 2PM. When one of you asked me to join, I said yes because it was the polite thing to do. I thought, I’d join this once then I’ll go my own way, the next.

But I didn’t expect that I’d enjoy having lunch with you guys.

Eventually I learned that some of you had the same interests as me and that delighted me. I’ve gotten some pretty useful recommendations about places, things to watch and games through everyone. I’ve found that there are people who liked the same books that I do. I’ve found out that you guys also had to rant every so often. And whenever I get interested in something that someone has (like a phone or gadget), you always went to the trouble of going to  my area to show it to me.

The truth now is that I look forward to lunch because of you guys. Even if we had to go to Maxwell/Amoy every single day. Heh.

Thanks.