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It happened again.

Chain letters/emails fools only children and teenagers, or so I thought. Back in secondary school days (thank God this sickening culture did not manage to stain my lovely primary school days), there were always one or two chain letters being passed around and scaring the wits out of those poor, innocent students. It would spread like a plague.

She (Convent is an all-girls missionary school) would gasp to see a mysterious envelope with her full name printed across the front neatly placed on the desk or in the one of the drawers, usually before the first lesson of the day starts (what a day spoiler!) or after recess. With trembling hands, she would open it. Her eyes grew bigger and frowns creased the forehead as she read it, word by word, on how terribly she’d die or how she’d cause gruesome deaths to her loved ones or how the entire world around her will suffer IF SHE FAILED TO PASS THAT ILL-FATED MAIL ON.

Some of them would go the extra length to equate the number of people you foward the letter to the grade of misfortune/good luck promised on you as a punishment/ reward. To make matter worse, the letter always ended with a warning to stay silent about the curse lest you @#*($*&% or your loved ones @(#(%)@*&!!!

As a result, most innocent school girls would spend the day feeling all torn apart between choosing to believe or to ignore the evil curse. The former would mean betrayal of friendships while the latter, taking a risk which one may not even afford to take at all if the curse was real. As silly and childish as it may sound right now to many of us, we cannot deny that the first chain letter that we received back then in our younger days truly gave us the creeps.

I couldn’t quite remember my reaction to my first chain letter I received in school many years ago. All I could recall is that it was “the trend” and almost everybody got marked by Evil and Death. Ha-ha. It finally got so bad that the principal and teachers had to butt in and give us a “ceramah” to educate us all that it was all a BIG FAT LIE and we should really stop freaking out, printing and spreading more chain letters but behave like smart, obedient Convent girls collecting more straight As and high academic scores for ourselves and the school.

I’m proud to say that I’ve never fowarded a single chain letter/email my entire life and I’d never will. Hehehehehe…

Look… I’m still alive, I don’t have multiple crops of zits erupting across my face, my parents did not get ran over by trailers, nobody went missing, nobody died just because I didn’t send that stupid letter.

Yet.

I received another chain email today from my ex-schoolmate from Convent. HELLO, just in case you’ve forgotten let me remind you that we’re already in our twenties!!! Well, she sent me this:

First i like u,then i luv u,now im afraid to lose u,if you dont send this to everyone on ur list,u will lose the person u luv.sorry…i dont wanna lose the person i luv……….if i dont get this back,i guess u r not my friend.if u have a lot of love 4 someone… copy and send this 2 ur whole buddy list…in 5 min ur true love will call ormsg..

Hmm… I may have lost the person I loved but it was way before you sent me this and even if it happened after you sent me this it is not because of this email that things went wrong. On another note, if I’ve believed all these chain letters I’d have lost everyone that I loved in this planet because I can’t afford to spend time with my loved ones because I’m too busy clicking “Foward” on the computer screen and feeling all jittery about severed bodies and violent deaths and zits on the face and broken relationships because I believe every single curse in chain mails because they sounded so real.

Sighh…

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