@UmilchiHexi

2 months ago

Its been almost 2 decades since I've left my home town at the age of 10. Since I've been away, I've graduated high school, graduated uni, worked for 5 year. Every now and then, usually when its 1am and I'm in bed staring at the ceiling, I'd fear that I'd completely lose in touch with where I came from, like I'd forget everything completely, all the places, all the people. This song is truely serene. Just 10 minutes in and memories of my childhood is starting to surface. I remember sleeping on this hard, wooden bamboo bed and this whole bed would be covered this anti- mosquito tent-like net you'd have to crawl into to get on the bed, listening to the ships hum in the harbour nearby and just feeling safe, I remember flashes of images, my knees dipping into the lake near my grandma's house, stepping on a bee for the first time and crying, taking a nap after school lunch, walking slightly behind the girl I liked but too scared to say anything, always too cheap to buy the "good ice cream" with the fake chocolate coating the drumstick. It genuinely felt like another life or a movie I've watched about someone else's life. Everything has changed so much since then. I don't know if I should be laughing with joy that all of this is coming back to me now in a rush, or I should be crying that this is all I have left. I can't recall any meaningful conversations or special moments, I've lost contact with my friends decades ago, I don't remember their names or even what they look like. All that's left are these fragments of memories and I do not want to lose them. Lord willing, I can go back soon, and again Lord willing, there would be opportunities for me to sit down with someone I used to know and tell them the good news about Jesus.

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