How Nostalgic

Ah, finally after those things I have to do last week finished, I could write something in this blog ^_^ yeah, I was quite busy last week. I don't know, I just feel very tired. I think I lack of sleep last week. It made me wonder though, when was the last time I felt that way? ah... how nostalgic.... not that I want to re-do those times, it's just some nostalgic feeling.

This morning, I went to Laurentius church to do somekind like a burial ceremony. Well, my grandma's sister passed away last Friday, and after she was cremated, we put her ashes in colombarium or something like that in the church. This Laurentius church is located at the same place with my elementary school: SD St. Yusup I.

So after we do the ceremony, two of my cousins and me planned to went inside the school. Unfortunatelly, the gates were locked. So we just walk around, outside of the school. There was P.E going on. I recognize the teacher, her name is Ibu Nur. I was only looking at her from a far, unable to move any closer couse of those gates, but suddenly she looked back at me, and amazingly, she still recognize me!! She even called me by name!! OMG!! I can't believed it. Undoubtly she already had thousands of students, yet she could still remember me?? wow.... as far as I remember, I wasn't a famous student. In fact, I was quite invisible. So, her remembering me really surprised me ^_^ but I'm happy inside. It's a pity, I couldn't chat with her.

Then, we went round at the back, and looked at our Pre-eleminary school, and other sport field, usually for boys. We met other P.E. teacher, Pa Parto. Actually, I didn't remember him, but my 2 cousins did. So, we aproached him. And, eventhough he didn't remember us by name, he did still remembered us. Thus we chat for a while. He explained several things that has changed for these 15 years, like how the number of students shrinking, so many new buildings, the demolishion of old tiny building which was the teacher's office, the big tree cut down, teacher's moving or retired, etc.

This event today really made me think that we should always respect our teachers. Because, eventhough we didn't realized it, they actually remembered us, one by one, eventhough we may feel that we were invisible. Somewhere around that time, I was actually once thought that nobody in the school cared about me. I was only had few friends, not that smart, didn't have anything special at all. But apparently, those teachers did care for me, because if they didn't, they wouldn't have remembered me ^_^ ah...... now I remember this proverb: If you ever think that the world turns its back to you, try to look closer, maybe you're the one who turn your back to the world. I guess it's true!! I guess, I was the one who didn't try to be social, or try to do something usefull. ah..... whatever it is, it's not too late to change now, isn't it? ^_^

anyway....... Today several things made me feels nostalgic....