Another Friendship Day.
I send few Friendship day messages and I have received two replies back. One was a usual “wish you the same” message. Another one received from my long time friend with little extra message which shows from my long list of “good (old) friends” he still hanging there. How many friends we had in the past?
How many of them are we still in touch. Good to think now.
I could remember only one friend (Madhu) from my “prior to school” age. Since pre-KG, kindergarten and play school etc was not familiar in those days… I have to mention this period as “prior to school”. I got his contact detail after a long gap and though attended his wedding and not much improvement in this friendship.
In lower primary and upper primary classes, I could recollect few friends’ names… Suresh, Rajesh, Ashraf, Prakash, Anil… Yes. I can still count on some more. Where are they now? Except Anil & Praskah, I have no clue about others. Even for these two I only knows where they are currently working. And an occasional email or sms or chat on messenger.
In high school also I had few friends, so is in college, first job, second job, third job….
What happened to all these friends? We were thick friends and spent lot of times together, played, studied, worked & travelled. I can add many things. Some people we even knew their families very well. We had same wave length, we may still have. Still if I see today, there are not many friends whom we are in touch with on a regular basis. Nothing happened wrong between our friendships. Its’ just that we are not in touch anymore and slowly and sadly we started forgetting each other. I have deliberately stopped writing about the names of my friends cause, I am sure that I would have missed many, if I continue with it.
I think in every phase of your life we will have a set of friends. Most of them will be “faced out” from your radar or even if you meet them after a long time the same “bonding” wont’ be there. Only few will survive, “Survival of the fittest”. It’s the same way nature also works.
Another friendship day has come and like any other day, it has gone.
Like my old friends my current friends also will get distanced from me today or tomorrow.
I can only use one cliché here “Keep in touch”
