It’s sad for me to admit it, but I never understood the close relationship that some people have with their cousins. I’ve heard stories of cousins’ only outings, regular cousin meetups and cousins who declare themselves to be as close as siblings, even until up to the point of adulthood and pass.
And that last line is the main difference in my case. I had spent some time with cousins when younger, but as the years roll by, I see less of them, relegated to the annual family reunions where we laugh and catch up but somehow don’t really keep in touch past that.
The main reason I suspect for the situation turning out like this, is due to my rather….twisted…family tree, which sometimes results in cases where there are relatives that I haven’t seen in 15 years. As such is the case with JY.
Due to reconciliations somewhere in this mess we call a family tree, JY and I finally met up again after all those years at a recent family dinner. I could barely recognise her of course and thus starting conversations where kinda stilted. But we exchanged emails/numbers, and got IM chat going. The virtual bridge that the Internet acts as over the gap of distance, in this case acted as a bridge across time as the years fell away and JY and I could catch up to where and who we are now.
As is common with IM chats, one can chat well over IM but be a totally different character in person. However when we did meet up again almost a week after the dinner, we immediately fell into the already comfortable flow that was already established.
As I sat sipping away at my coffee while JY was doubling over from a silly joke that I would usually not say, a sudden memory struck. I had once prayed for a sister as well, almost like a twin, all those years ago when I was nothing much more beyond a lonely single-child.
Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
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