save your tears
have you ever watched 'you and everything else'? (i've only watched the first 5 eps tbh). to put it simply, the show depicts the tumultuous relationship between female leads beginning from childhood. Not that I have one.
As a kid, I hated T. Perhaps hate is too strong of a word. Disliked. Yes. So much that I've never actually forgotten T's birthday. Seriously. The reason I disliked T was plentiful but all in all, it was a little kid's affair.
T's favorite football player was (not sure now) Ronaldo and he embodied that aura of arrogance (iykyk). I could never reconcile his two aspects: his religiosity and his demeanor. Politically we were opposites passed on by our fathers and mothers.
He was a football 'rival'. His shoe size was always bigger than me. Nike and Adidas cleats. He played in a football academy/club. I was never allowed to. I don't think we've played in the same team during PE. We were both strikers. By end of elementary school, the gap between us would be too insurmountable for me to overcome. Football suddenly turned 'physical'.
His lunches though was great. In retrospect, maybe unhealthy? Samyang, noodle crackers, or seaweeds and sitting round the table everyone in the table gets a piece of it.
I liked his father. He was lovely with a lovely smile. We did presentations to parents as kids. His father always attended as one of my audience, with a satisfied laugh, he'd hand out a nice praise.
He boasted being able to type fast. I was unimpressed. He's popular. His jokes always seemed to off-hand to me. I showed him how to do 2-digit multiplications.
We played Ouija together when lights are out. It 'moved' but I could not believe him. Not even once. We sang Justin Bieber's.
His group got caught in trouble once for inappropriate behavior. Finally, we were in separated classes. I grew disinterested with football. The end. He was my early conception of what I dislike. Now, I don't really care or do I? The end. And I've never forgotten his birthday of all people.