It is strange... what they say about friendships! I have heard him say often "true friends are those that stay close even if they are away.. so much so that even if you meet twenty years later without having had a single conversation, you can pick up from where you left" hmmm... I used to grunt and brush off the thought. Recently an apparition proved me wrong. I call it an apparition only because it is yet to sink in. I was having the worst day of my life and I was pretty sure I was headed to a railway station to run away to the lands of yonder or just sit in the darkness and wait to vanish. For some reason I decided I would go to my tailor instead for a trial of the clothes that were due a week later.
I hate it when I have to park when the work at hand is hardly a few minutes and the feeling within is to vapourise... so as soon as I reach the tailor's - strangely named 'the middle shop' I look at him and gesture if I can just leave the bike out until I'm done trying the sample clothes, he reluctantly agrees, I set the bike to stand and take my bag out, thrust my helmet in and am about to turn around and enter the shop when at a distance I see three chirpy figures walk towards me... wait! is that... no! really? I see N... a good friend from college with two others . Others? No! that's S n A. OMG!! really it's been years since we met. I run to towards the three of them, feeling 17 again, shouting "Am I having a dream or are these strangers?" a doesn't quite get it and grunts to herself "Who is this mad woman" N quickly recognises and we hug each other share pleasantries. I just want to hold on to them, go wherever they're going and not come back yet I ask them in as formal a tone I could muster "If you girls have planned some quiet time together, I'm okay, I can see you'll later, i was leaving anyway." - I lie. "What rubbish" S quips, "come along, we're just headed to the store to collect a few things,we'll do it together." I happily trod along, chattering, happy banter like no time had passed.
I suddenly realised that time has its way of reminding you about the joy that you were capable of, the blessings you are given and the simple fact that life isn't about the aches and pains, the unpaid bills, the everyday falsehoods, the heartbreaks, the selfish MANkind the bickering and the nagging of - you know who- but about these coincidences, these reassurances from a beautiful past. Thank you girls for showing up from I don't know where and why - it made me smile and go back home and pick up life with renewed joy. I guess I'm turning 30 and it shows but I dont care as long as I can revisit the time when I was 17 and smile - all eezz well.
I go home - all three of them msg with the same question "Are you ok? You seemed hassled?..." I smile and say it's ok, everything is ok! :-) and suddenly... Everything is OK.
I hate it when I have to park when the work at hand is hardly a few minutes and the feeling within is to vapourise... so as soon as I reach the tailor's - strangely named 'the middle shop' I look at him and gesture if I can just leave the bike out until I'm done trying the sample clothes, he reluctantly agrees, I set the bike to stand and take my bag out, thrust my helmet in and am about to turn around and enter the shop when at a distance I see three chirpy figures walk towards me... wait! is that... no! really? I see N... a good friend from college with two others . Others? No! that's S n A. OMG!! really it's been years since we met. I run to towards the three of them, feeling 17 again, shouting "Am I having a dream or are these strangers?" a doesn't quite get it and grunts to herself "Who is this mad woman" N quickly recognises and we hug each other share pleasantries. I just want to hold on to them, go wherever they're going and not come back yet I ask them in as formal a tone I could muster "If you girls have planned some quiet time together, I'm okay, I can see you'll later, i was leaving anyway." - I lie. "What rubbish" S quips, "come along, we're just headed to the store to collect a few things,we'll do it together." I happily trod along, chattering, happy banter like no time had passed.
I suddenly realised that time has its way of reminding you about the joy that you were capable of, the blessings you are given and the simple fact that life isn't about the aches and pains, the unpaid bills, the everyday falsehoods, the heartbreaks, the selfish MANkind the bickering and the nagging of - you know who- but about these coincidences, these reassurances from a beautiful past. Thank you girls for showing up from I don't know where and why - it made me smile and go back home and pick up life with renewed joy. I guess I'm turning 30 and it shows but I dont care as long as I can revisit the time when I was 17 and smile - all eezz well.
I go home - all three of them msg with the same question "Are you ok? You seemed hassled?..." I smile and say it's ok, everything is ok! :-) and suddenly... Everything is OK.
