Have you ever wondered what we have in common to the bus stands, railway stations and airports? Yes, I have and always wondered, why?
Like these places have two acts ‘arrivals and departures’….life also has this same feature in a unique fashion with the only difference is here you make the choices of arrival and departure.
Having my education done in different parts of India and stayed at various places with my family that consisted of my dad, mom and sis, I always dreaded the thought of getting close to my friends that I make.
Every time, I had made friends I had to leave them and move to a different place and town and start a fresh. I used to always envy the people who have been friends for long years together and always longed for a friend.
From my childhood did not have one single friend but various friends and they all would remember me as I do them now, I guess. Though time and tide could not remain in constant touch but the times spent together will remain etched in the minds and continue to ring the bell whenever prompted by similar incidents and happenings.
These meetings and relations had been so short lived and strange that I really cherish them looking back at them. Sometimes your friendship starts of in a quarrel, or by sharing something, or by giving a hand of help, or by calling them out by name, or most of the times it is just by a smile.
The days when the internet and World Wide Web wasn’t available there was immense happiness in making friends and there was no animosity like now. It had to be face-to-face and either you like them or not you make decisions and stick to it.
Sometimes there are people in this journey called life that you would have met these kinds of people only twice or thrice and had some wonderful conversations. But they aren’t now close by but you somehow tend to miss them, without explanation. And this strange feeling make you grow fonder of them.
Sometimes you have people with you always and you seem to be together and have breakfast, lunch, share a cup of coffee, share a joke, share a secret, share a lighter moment, share a embarrassment, share a loss and share a gain, but they seem still distant and you feel there isn’t more to this relationship and when they depart you kind of remember them for few days and then you need to rack you brain to remember them again.
Every meeting and departure of a friend brings joy to the mind and let you linger with its thought no matter what may come and go. Life goes on with giving you the two phases of life meeting and departure.
Gone are the days when such departures were painful and heart rendering. Today, external appearances are matter-less, facial contours are not measured, geographical distances are erased, familiarity is of no importance, the intimacy isn’t there, the need to see each other isn’t there and still there is so much of friendship spread across.
In spite all differences wiped out there is uncertainty that prevails in this kind of friendship but there are souls that touch even from the animosity and distance. And people like them are very few. One such friendship can never die and it lives in the minds even after the distant is maintained.
What happens when such friends depart and you can’t bridge the distance no matter what?
PS: This post is dedicated to my friends.
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