We had our annual alumni meet this week. One of the most amazing feeling in this world is to meet someone you cherished being with after a long time...and i felt equally elated.
Although it has not been a very long time since we parted, but the outpour of emotions after our farewell party seriously said a whole lot about our 2 year stint together. Guess when you do a professional course you fight a whole lot during projects, but the bond that you share becomes strong as well.
So there were people who had taken off from their work months back because they wanted to be here. Some took great pains just to meet old friends and relive those beautiful moments. It's such a pleasure when you are studying - no pressure, no stress. Although we always feel stressed out when exams take a huge toll, but aren't they way better than meeting a deadline in office? You bet.
I don't know when I will meet these friends again. It is strange how we keep meeting new people everyday, sharing our lives with them and how our path changes. Some leave great impressions in our memory and we cherish them for a lifetime. Strange how when we are living those moments we feel we cant live without these people and yet as time passes, new people replace them. And then when we meet them, we desperately look for that bond. Sometimes its there. And sometimes, we just fail to imagine how the person has changed. Isn't it strange how we never think we have changed too?
Hmm...wish I could keep everyone I love close to me always, wish I could keep them the way they are!
the friends you make as you study stay with you for life. as you move on, to higher things you some behind. some, you keep in touch. some, you take with you.
ReplyDeleteand then after a while, as your friend circle refuses to increase, you collect acquaintances. and they become an ancillary part of your life.
yet they provide sporadic moments of joy, sometimes pain. sometime both.
yet the feeling of "being just the same" with a friend who you meet after a decade and a half cannot be equated with anything in the world.
not even old lovers.
nice post.
i'm still in my studying phase of life...
ReplyDeletebut i already feel this sentiments for friends i've left behind at every stage..school..junior college...now soon my graduation will be over...and we'll be scattered in different parts of the world each doing our own thing...with memories to live by...
neway..
here's wishing u a very happy new year..
hoping it gives u a lot of luck and happiness to cherish..
i also wish u peace of mind, soul and heart....
cheers!
i know what u mean...i have even made a pact with all my friends (on a piece of tissue paper on a night of pubbing) which says that we'll all stay in the same old age home!!! and many times have hoped all my friends would stay in the same city....and the more i've wished for it...the further the friends have gone....hmmm...maybe they're doing it on purpose!!! :)
ReplyDelete@phish..acquaintances do provide sporadic moments of joy..but imagine life being without that close group.I hope i never have to live without it!
ReplyDeleteand yeah...that feeling of everything being the same is so strange yet so beautiful.
@sneha...thanks n same to u! lucky u...u still in college where u meet freinds more than family probably!
@zee..we cant stop life from 'moving on' and 'changing' i guess...damn!!