Little Cozy Corner

Aaahhh….what a wonderful feeling it is to be in love! I just got news yesterday that a close friend of mine has met a wonderful man online and fingers crossed, all will go well with the 2 of them. It’s perhaps far too early to hope for wedding bells but I do hope to at least hear hearts fluttering and see dreamy faces and stolen smiles coming from her. But she isn’t the only who has brought me good news, another galpal of mine has also recently met someone after being single for so long and I couldn’t be happier for her. Although I have not had the chance of speaking to her yet, I believe it could be another successful online romance! Another meaning mine and hers, of course.

Chatting to Ms. Blessed reminded me of my own experience and how it was for me  and Ted back then. Truly, it was divine intervention and to the best of my knowledge, nothing else could be a possible reason. If you’re wondering why I’m so convinced that it was divine intervention, let take you on a short walk down memory lane…..

It was back in the days of iRC (Internet Chat Relay) where lots of people and mostly teenagers would congregate online to chat. I still remember typing in ‘join #hottub’ because it was one of my favourite channels and one which I most often frequent. I could be seen in the college computer lab for hours on end chatting away. Most of the time, it would be after classes or if the gap between classes were long, I’d also be there. The library was no friend of mine. In fact, I think I can count the number of times I actually punched in to use the library. Yes, it is rather shameful to admit but that was what life as a teenager to me - clubbing and chatting.

I made many, many online friends and although 95% of them have all disappeared from my list, I still keep in touch with a handful of them. It’s amazing how 2 people who have never met in real life continue to keep the friendship alive through just a Christmas card year. Goes to show that maintaining a friendship isn’t that hard after all, it just takes effort, no matter how small that effort is. It’s the thought that counts.

Sorry about side-tracking there a bit…anyway, main reason I say that our meeting is purely divine intervention is because out of the hundreds of nicks in that channel, Ted chose mine. What force or energy which made him double click on my name cannot be anything other than divine for the Lord works in mysterious ways, like it or not. You will never know what’s been planned for you, you’ll never know what’s going to happen to you in the next minute, heck….you’ll never know His plan till it happens to you! And that doesn’t necessarily mean that you will also see the results of His plan immediately. Everything happens in His time. Such was the way things were with Ted and I. We were online chat pals for at least one and a half years before anything more serious than platonic took place.

Even then, everything was done long distance. And mind you, anyone who has experienced long distance relationship can vouch for this - it ain’t easy unless you are willing to put up with more downs than ups. And for many, it doesn’t always work out but for those who have successfully conquered the quest, victory is sweet. So to those who are still skeptical about online romances, everything you do is a risk, be it a virtual relationship or otherwise….its just up to you whether you’re game enough to take it. If it works out, nothing could be better. If it doesn’t, consider it a lesson learnt.

After all, if it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be. Our lives have been planned out long before we were born, so there’s no escaping His plan, no matter what you do.