How It is to be Loved

I walked into my flat a bit upset. I was tired, sleepless and felt manipulated by someone, worse I got lost on the way back home. I said hi to my flat keeper and flatmate, all I wanted to do is lying down in my bed and sleep.

I switched on AC and CD, then prepared my simple dinner and dug out yoghurt in grocery bag. I sat on the floor and folded my laundry. In a sudden I realized there was something in my flat. I saw a big package and I wondered who sent it to me.

I reached that package and looked at it clearly, when I saw my name on it I knew who sent it to me. It was my bestfriend, a looooong time bestfriend. We went to the same primary school long time ago. Well I know her handwriting well for sure. Then I looked at the sender’s name and address, yes, it was her.

I unwrapped that package with excitement. Oh my goodness, she sent me a box of instant noodle that only available in our hometown. She knows that I feel homesick sometime and miss the food, no wonder few days ago when I sent her an sms telling her that I missed her she told me that it wouldn’t be homesick soon. I was trembling with gratitude when I saw it.

Some of you might think that it’s silly sending a full box of instant noodle (contains 40 packages…she said on the phone that I could have it for a month ^_^), even sillier that I got overexcited with a box of instant noodle. In contrary I don’t look at it that way. I see how much she cares about me, her friend in the middle of nowhere, far away from her, and she needs nothing in return.

My friend’s from a well off family in our hometown, both she and her husband have fine jobs, so she doesn’t need money from me. She doesn’t need me to find her a job either. She doesn’t need anything from me. Yet, she cares about me. What is it but love? It’s unconditional love.

I rang and thanked her. She laughed when I told her that she surprised me. It’s not about how expensive the present is, but the effort to send it. She wrote down the addresses by herself, she did it to me, for nothing in return. I told her that she made me felt love. Yes, I know that I am loved, unconditionally.

Thank Lord for sending her to me.