Asking Maiah

Do you still remember your childhood sweetheart? The person in your early age on which your young and inexperienced feeling was first tested. Do you still remember his/her name? or even his/her surname? Do you have the moments when you’re still young on which you told that person about your real feelings towards them? Do you still have the communication nowadays? How are you and that person at this point of time? As is? or Something have develop between the two of you through the years?

When I was six, I’ve met my so called childhood sweetheart. We make acquaintance for the very first time in our preparatory school. She was very lovely during that time. Her dimples are truly heaven sent. Her smiling face makes my heart and body wiggle. In my stay during those days in that school at young age, I’ve seen she was a witty girl. She talks confidently and a very talented person in other fields too. Basically our school, our house and their house were just nearby on each other. We’d play in their house together with other girl I guess.I'd remember that both those girls bullied me so much, but that was just for fun. Doesn’t mean against so much to me. We became classmates until the second grade in a Catholic school. In my third grade my family decided to move into a new house. In my young mind that means so sad. The girl I’m playing with for almost three years will be gone. It makes me cry. But we need to move come what may. Who am I to refused? I’m just a kid. That was March 1998.

Years passed by easily. I didn’t see her again. I remember her face very well, those dimples? Absolutely I miss them badly. No communication and No news equals No more dimples. I graduated in elementary and highschool without any idea if she’d graduated too. Many things have changed. Many things developed. Many things were still remembered even a decade just passed by in a blink of my early heart and mind.

The long wait is over, until the 2nd day of the semester by November 2007. A common friend told me that she graduated from the school where, I and the girl I’ve known had studied. Eventually that common friend know the person I’m looking for. Suddenly, I smiled. This is it I guess. I ask that common friend for the name of the girl in her Friendster. After that, I went out of the school to rent internet and search something about my long-waited childhood sweetheart.

“She changed a lot”. That’s the only line in my mind. From a silent and witty girl to an expressive lady. She gone so far in my expectations. I don’t feel any disappointment, but the feeling is kinda weird. What she is right now is the least person I expect her to be. But, I saw she looks cute and happy in that field. She is right now a musically-attached lady. She’s a vocalist of their band. The voice is superb. Images speaks for itself. I know this is her. Even I cannot believe at first sight. I’m so bless that I’d found her. I sent her a personal message in her account telling her that I was her former neighbor and buddy when we where six or seven. The feeling of contentment arrives in me during that moment.

Deep inside of me, my heart shouting the famous line of Archimedes. “Eureka! Eureka! I’ve found her!” and the rest is history. By this time of this article, Me and that girl still haven’t meet each other yet. Time constraints and profession complications hinders me to do so. I know time will come for it. The most important for me is just to have a line of touch with that girl that I’ve met when I was six, changed a lot after nine years, miss a lot of things about her life, the girl who is now so much dedicated to his career a singer of a rock band. I am so happy for her. Things changed a lot for her, fortunately in my case, the dimples are still there. And so those wonderful smiles too.

To my beloved childhood sweetheart, MAIAH.