Rare And Precious Pearls : Friends!!!...

I think it was just the day before yesterday that I'd said I wouldn't be writing another article for quite a while, but here I am at it again, energetically punching in the keys of my laptop! So, what's it about this time? Well, I guess the title is a sure giveaway!... 

Most of us get so entangled and preoccupied with this whole issue of living life - our careers, jobs, parties, night-outs, about being successful and making new connections, and a myriad of other seemingly important things; that we begin to get swept away from our very roots and from the most valuable people in our lives : "Our Friends!" So, I'm taking this time to step out of the shell of my own life, and focus on those very people who made it worth living!...

I really wish that I could pick out each one among the hundreds of friends I have, and personally sit down to have tea with every one of them, recapitulating everything that's gone down in the past, but alas, I guess such nostalgia is a far-fetched dream. Right from the friends I had in school and all the friends I had during our preparation for IIT-JEE, to all the friends in college now; it's like a vast, never ending treasure-trove of jewels!!!...

All the moments we had together; the casual discussions, the mind-blowing parties, the serious study sessions and of course all the little fights we had, on the silliest of issues imaginable; it all comes back in a flash, and I can only but smile, thinking of years gone by! All of us want to move ahead in life, but we can't really leave behind our past, can we?.....

But, there are some moments, which are really special, which get permanently etched in our minds! These memories come back to us every now and then, and give us a moment of heavenly peace and relief from the daily hustle-bustle of life. I've had such moments too..... I remember the time when some of us from our JEE coaching institute, went over to a friend's house and rain-danced, without a care in the world; and we had to attend that day's three hour session with the same wet clothes!... I remember erupting in a roar of laughter, on the stupidest of jokes cracked by some of my friends... Then there were also events, like the one outlined in the article "A New Lease Of Life", where all of us literally owed each other our lives, for managing to get out of that treacherous water fall alive!...

Such memories are all that remain, to connect us to a world gone by! But we must hold on to these threads of fond memories, as they may define our very existence! Although all of us have chosen different paths, and will probably end up in different places across the globe, I hope that we can always remain in touch! And who knows what might happen in a few more decades?....... Hehe, maybe someday I'll meet a long lost friend in some random supermarket, as they show in the movies!...

Well jokes apart, however things may turn out, I know one thing for sure and that is, I've been blessed with a bunch of the most amazing friends one could ever wish to have! It is said that "The most we can do for a friend is to simply be his or her friend!" And trust me, that's the only thing one ever needs to do! Isn't friendship divine?.....!!

So guys, let's all saver this one moment on 'Mahashivratri' in memory of all the rare and precious pearls we've ever had in our lives, in the form of friends, because some people may 'go to priests', 'others to poetry', but 'I to my friends'!!!...

CHEERS TO LIFE!!!...

  CHEERS TO FRIENDSHIP!!!...