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Accidental clicks

We trudge through the Internet every day, surfing sites, reading blogs, getting the news, that it's become an every day common occurrence to us. You'd barely think twice about who you're reading or how it affects you. In the days before Technorati and RSS, you'd manually hyperlink someone's site to yours if it was something you enjoyed reading.

I vaguely remember thinking, "Hmm, a cartoonist's site. He's linked me. I guess I'll return the favour." That was early June 2003. Sporadically we'd leave comments on each other's blogs.

Fast forward to Easter 2006, I get an email from him sharing his point of view about something I had just written. It could have been from anyone. The occasional visitor feeling like he/she's connected with me for what I wrote, and maybe sharing a friendship through instant messenger thereafter. Yet somehow, it wasn't left as that.

I feel like I'm sitting here now as a result of that "accidental click" four years ago. The surrealism of witnessing first hand, globalisation at its best. At the time the world argued about how the Internet revolution would create an anti-social society, a few of its denizens lived to prove otherwise.

I still look at Lee sometimes and feel the need to pinch him - to know he's really there. (Heheh...) On the other hand, it makes me smile knowing that its from some strange twist of fate that we're together. And that we've been right there under each other's noses, reading and watching each other's lives go by, without making much contact.

This is to us. A year to the month when we embarked on the journey of merging our lives' paths. Owed to the click of a mouse.



Comments

that's just so romantic. now you have a wonderful story to tell your kids + grandkids ... heh :)

i would have to thank ted for making that first click when he saw my nick in an irc chat site sometime in 1999...after that, it was friendship which obviously blossomed into something VERY real today. :) the Lord works in mysterious ways eh? ;)

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