Ribkar wrote me a letter, Untuk Teman dari Tingkat Satu, as a submission to a letter writing competition, 30 Hari Menulis Surat Cinta. Been waiting for a long time since the day she made the first submissions, wondering if I would ever get one of her letters. Was so happy when the "postman" delivered it via Twitter.
Hey, Rib, thank you for the letter.
You're one of my best friends, if you want to know. I always remember how we used to sit together in the class. How you were always late to school. How I always texted you every morning, "Kelasnya di mana?" We rode your new scooter, the night before I went back to my hometown. And you came over right away when I told you I needed a company for dinner.
The first few days of this semester, I still hardly believed that I couldn't find you at school anymore. Surrounded by new classmates, felling lonely. Went to Plasma sometimes, alone with my thoughts—we used to had lunch there together. And wherever I walked, met people we knew, they asked me questions about you. I felt sick. And mad. Mad at you for leaving school. But that wasn't your fault.
I manage to make some friends at school, but no one's like you. And it sucks.
I'm not good at writing, I didn't know how to reply your letter. But I wrote a greeting card I sent with your birthday present. Via Pos Indonesia. So old school, I know. But I wanted to make it a little bit extraordinary.
I hope the postman come to your house soon.
