echelon V

Monday, June 27, 2005

Open letter to 'the Om3n'

(Slightly long post, bear with me)

I've always considered you a friend. Even after you switched high schools after grade 10 and we basically lost contact - shortly after your endless bitching about how Modern High sucked. I never held anything against you, because I knew you better than that.

It's no secret that I despised life at Modern High. I never made a huge deal out of it, but I did. And for a time, I despised the people who made my life the way it was. I'm not taking any names but you of all people should know what I'm talking about. I now don't personally hold anything against those people.

And you know, while I was there, I made some pretty damn good friends. Friends like Mrinal, Anish, and yeah, Atul. So you should know I'd be pretty ticked off when you go 'i draw the line here and now...sam and the rest of the people on this board (who know atul)... heres one thing im making clear... if i dont see atul behave maturely... either he leaves or I leave.'

You know what, you're free to choose who you like and dislike - but you have no right to choose who my friends are. I'm not the kind of person to immediately start hating someone just because he or she chooses to hang out with people I don't like.

'my past isnt something i regret but tis something i left behind long ago and its best off behind me.' That's what you said in reply to his opening post, where all he did was call you by a name you used years ago. If your 'past' is something you've left behind, then you'll do the same with your hatred for him. Hell, even KK is on relatively good terms with the guy now.

'if you try to drag it in front of my face ever again, youll be using shoelaces for floss.' And why would you do that, considering your past is something you claim to not regret? You expect him to behave maturely; how about you do the same? Being 'specifically allergic' to his alleged 'bullshit' is no excuse, and you know that just as well as I do.

On another note, what is it about your past that you're so keen on leaving behind? The time you came upto my desk - the year we were both new students at the school - and put an invitation card on my desk and said "and you had better come to my birthday party". I barely knew you then. What about the time we threw water balloons (I think) on passing cars from your balcony? Or how about all the NFS3 games we played online? Or the times the lot of us used to just hang out? Is that the past you want to forget?

Because if it is, I don't know you anymore.

You changed a lot just before and when you started going to EIS, and I never really understood you after that. Part of that is because you never really explained yourself to me. I guess you thought the people who knew you would sort of 'just understand'. But we didn't. And we still don't. But we still kept in touch, largely because of the past. So pardon me if I decide to take you to task when you say it's something you want to leave behind, even when you're not talking to me.

He said something about you in jest, and you took it so personally that you basically threatened the lot of us to choose between you two. Because I get the feeling you're in no mood to make amends. Maybe you are, and I sure hope so. I don't like losing friends.

- Sam

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