Forever and After?? Time Will Tell

The college session here in Delhi is about to end. At most a week or two more and then the students would go on preparatory leave. Although this happens every year, the reason behind me mentioning it here is that this year, I am also a part of the term students mentioned above. 

It seemed like a new beginning three years back, when I (and many others) finished school and stepped into college life. Three years hence, its déjà vu. Quite naturally, the prime feelings that emanate from such happenings pertain to emotions. Emotions, that evolve by virtue of the friendships we form, the bonds that we establish with each other, the attachment we have with the institution we join. Quite honestly, I don’t really feel the kind of attachment with my college that I had for my school. Maybe these three years cannot match those twelve years. But that’s just me, I’m sure many would have fallen in love deeply with their independent lives post school, it’s understandable. Now that I look back, I haven’t made many friends here in college, but that’s strictly from a quantitative view, quality wise, I guess I have met those few people that I would like to keep for life.

Going over the last sentence above again, my attention hovers on these three words: “friends”, “for” and “life”. These were the same words that we heard and said at the time of bidding goodbye to school. Surely, we say these words sincerely... “We will stay in touch”, “Friends forever” and so forth, but down the line, some of the friends do go a little distant, while some come even closer. It’s not that we deliberately lose touch with them, but perhaps, somewhere, somehow our priorities change and while a part of our erstwhile life fits in, others just lag behind. But that being said, there are some relationships which don’t loosen their grip with time, rather they get stronger, be it simple friendship or deeper affairs. Interactions with some begin to remain confined to social networking, while others transcend the so called boundary walls of comfort.

Looking back, I feel that the friends I made in the last two years of school have been the ones closest to me. There’s this one friend with whom I make it a point to meet every weekend, well almost. There’s one who is busy with his life as well but we do keep a tab on the happenings in each others’ life. Then again, there is one whom I befriended in class Vth, tortured him, still do at times, but I can truly call him a friend for life. There was this girl I met in Class XIth, and bonded so well during those two years, that she’s still pretty much a part of my life. I want to write about some of the others as well, college mates as well, but will save that topic for another day. 

I’m sure you all must have friends like those mentioned above, many more perhaps. Similarly, there must be those with whom you tend to drift apart and the only communication with them is on birthdays, New Year and other festivals. 

So, like I have been saying all along, we live life, make friends on the way, some go right till the last station, while some de-board before that. But all of them who become a part of this journey mean special to us, in some way for sure and make the journey called "LIFE" worth it.

Before I finish, here’s a message for all those friends of mine...

To those who have been with me on my journey so far, THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE.
To those who will enter my life in the future, WELCOME ABOARD. 

Until next time
Take Care :)