It all started with a reply...

Virtual friends. I know all of us into this platform have their own virtual friends for it is so impossible to last here without making friends to different people all around the globe. I also have a fair share of good virtual friends that I found in here which I won’t be mentioning because I feel like they are endless.

Truly, being friends knows no boundaries. I mean, yes, literally, we are bounded by the screen of whatever gadget we use but I feel like it doesn’t really matter. Real friendship exists, may it be off screen or on screen.

Anyways, let me just share to you this funny friendship that I made virtually.

It all started with a reply.

Some time in 2017, I read a story at Wattpad and it is entitled “Hell University” written by KnightInBlack. It was kind of famous back then, actually until now, I think. Going back, I really liked the story so when a song about it became trending, I immediately got hooked to it.

The song was really nice and it really fits the story. I can’t help it but to add the one who wrote it on Facebook and when she accepted my friend request, I messaged her like a fan trying to make her idol notice her. LOL

I dig up to our conversation on messenger and my very first chat on her was on July 15, 2017 saying:

She replied with “thank you”, I replied again and then that’s it. The conversation instantly died.

Some time in  2018, I don’t know what’s with me back then but I kept on replying to some Facebook stories or “my day” if I find it interesting.

While seeing my day after my day, I stopped on this certain photo of a knee. It’s a knee with a huge bruise on it, an injury that someone got from playing volleyball. It’s her my day. We’re not close that time but I really don’t know where I got the courage to reply to it with some teasing like as if we are close friends.

Surprisingly, she replied on the next day. I replied again, she replied the next day and the conversation goes on and on. She says she likes my humor and that I am fun to talk to that’s why the conversation keeps going.

But us replying immediately rarely happens. I’ll reply at night and she’ll reply during the morning. She always replies late. LOL

At first, it was just a day delayed, then it became two days, three days, a week, two weeks, and even months. But everytime we’ll reply to other, we have like 10 topics to talk about. So when we reply, there are so many long messages for we are both talkative.

Chatting continuous until 2019 came. And then 2020, and now that it’s already 2021. We don’t talk that much from before but we still talk the same way. It will took us months to reply to each other but we have like more than 10 pending topics that we are talking about.

I’ve come to know her and she get to know me.

We became really close that I became her critique or her "judger" (her term) whenever she has a new composed song. I am always the one to hear it first before she uploads it on her YouTube channel. And I am just really so proud of what she have reached so far.

She is not that active on YouTube but her account is finally being monetized. If you are familiar with gwyomi or 4reuminct's University Series, she wrote a song about “Safe Skies, Archer” which gained more than a hundred thousand views and that’s when she was able to hit over a thousand subscribers to meet YouTube’s requirement for her account to be monetized.

She have so many composed songs about stories that I like and it brings us even more closer.

Also, she writes stories at Wattpad too and back then, it’s just a few thousand reads until it reach a hundred thousand, and then a million reads! I feel so proud. LOL

And just recently, she told me that she is busy editing her manuscript because her book will soon to be published. I know it’s not my victory but I just feel so proud of her. Her bio says that "my book will be published someday" and now, it is becoming true!

The Mafia Boss' Unwanted Wife - story link

It just so amazing how we were able to build this kind of friendship on screen, and it just started with my crazy reply on her Facebook story. Truly, on screen or off screen, creating friendship such as this isn’t impossible. Actually, most of the time, we tend to trust more those people that we haven’t met personally yet.

Anyways, it was so fun sharing this story. I kind of scroll through our conversation from the past years and I had a good laugh at our silliness. I could talk about this forever but I’m afraid I’ll bore you so this is it for now.

How about you? Do you have a virtual friend that you know for years now? How did you know each other? How close are you with each other? Come on, share that story of friendship you have with each other. :)

Article No. 150 - October 16, 2021