- The Woman Who Offered Friendship, Got Important, Disappeared
- May 6, 2008 Filed under: Friends, People, Politics, Public Figures, War
I had the fortune during one of my early trips to Sri Lanka to meet a woman who I respected and considered a friend. Let’s call her Miss A.
Miss A met with me regularly in Sri Lanka. We shared stories and opinions. We discussed former loves and future goals, exchanged ideas about books. We discussed a job opportunity she had that would put her in a position that could be critical to the country. I recommended she try it out. She did. And she has since disappeared from my life.
The last words she had for me was a suggestion that I should “focus on [my] own country.” Was that a warning? Were those words that for her stemmed from a danger I might experience or were they generated from something more personal, a deeper embarrassment of her involvement in how the current administration is running Sri Lanka? She is a card carrying member after all.
I’m eager to learn more, yet now that she is a government insider she refuses to return my calls/emails, etc. I wouldn’t even know if she was still alive if it weren’t for others who knew the both of us. Frankly, I couldn’t be more disappointed. She is/was (?) someone I had come to value.
More on her later. Maybe.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:47 am
people tend to change like that.. and sometimes we wonder why… it’s strange really
I know friends who change like that.. and u know u never didnt anything wrong.. it’s strange… it’s sad too…
hope things work out..and that one day she’ll return or reply to all your efforts in trying to keep in touch…:)