Over this past term, I've spent a lot of time with my design group project members over lunch or at the bar. Out of one lunch, the movie Before Sunrise was recommended to be a good movie.

I finally got around to watching this movie, and in a lot of ways, it was rather artful. For me, I found it somehow enjoyable, yet somehow not.

Perhaps because it shows the friendship that originates by chance and is developed only over a short period of time before the two parties are forcefully removed from each other due to life moving on.

I don't know what it is for me but this past year overall seems to have developed in me that sentiment to a marked degree. While not romantic in nature (as the movie's was), I couldn't help but recount my own experiences of just having such a great time with someone while both of us know that the time we have together is short. And once that time has expired, the chance of meeting each other again is perhaps slim.

The movie was pleasant. And then the end arrives. And during that scene, my own memories of parting with those whom you had come to regard as so close to you, over such a short period of time, played back in my mind sharply. The scene just felt too close to my own sentiment. And even now I sit wondering. What will five years bring? I actually sighed out loud during that scene.

And I wonder. I wonder why it seems that those whom you meet by chance for a short period of time are sometimes those whom you really wish you could keep with you forever? I suppose, I should just be thankful I was able to be in Singapore for longer than just one night.

Is it childish of me to have this sentiment?