Friends are your greatest possession and I am blessed to have one. This blog post is earmarked to one such friend
Dear Sanju,
When I sit in retrospection reminiscing about my school days, there is a deluge of memories whenever I think about you. Many a times my eyes fill with tears and yet I beam and smile. That's how the beauty of our friendship is. Never knew how time ran and those five years seemed very sparse a time. Seemingly so different, we turned out to be the best of companions. Yeah, not only did we share the same desk, but we shared our moods interests, emotions, dreams and aspirations. I still remember the day before Diwali vacations when I filled with gloom because the teacher made us sit apart. Those endless discussions about Pokemon, Animax, the fanaticism to collect those Pokemon goodies, Harry Potter (not to forget Malfoy), and our very 'cynic' opinions about others were enough to keep us chattering and blabbering on phones for hours. We started knowing each other way too well, with the connection being termed 'telepathy' by DB (our very own nickname, who can forget your talent of giving these!) I can recall myself saying," Yaar, yeh kyon ladte hain? Hamari toh kabhi ladai nahi hui". Years passed and I thoroughly relished every bit of it.
With my life's biggest achievement, came a big shock as well. You left school and we both started a different journey. I was surrounded by friends, yet strangers. Many a times when I sat alone, I hoped that you'll come to sit with me. We lost all contacts for two years, but those memories kept on swaying time and again. I had resolved to renew contact and I still remember writing my heart out in a mail hoping that you'll read it once. I made it to an engineering college and that very day I got your call. The course of our lives had changed but still we talked as if it was just yesterday that we last met. That day, I was proud of myself, I was proud of you and yes, I was proud of the relation we shared. Then began the quest of our meeting. After 4 long years, our roads converged and we finally met. Nothing had changed and then I got sure that it never will.
Those endless talks are now via the keyboard (I thank fb). The physical distance might have increased, but the emotional void has vanished. When people in my college talk about Harry Potter, I enter a flashback. (Nothing about Harry Potter has changed, but it has stopped amusing me now, without you).
My eyes still long for your company, my ears for those grins,giggles and gossips. And my heart wants a time machine. For now, I just want to say
"Though miles may lie between us,
we are never far apart
For friendship doesn't count miles
It's measured by the heart"
