School friends!

Life is all about the present. The presents you have, making it worth it, breathing in and out. One such present is your school friends. You could have their faint, half-forgotten images in your mind, with a couple of year old frame of references and then you are just stunned and amazed by the fact that they've changed so much. Suddenly all your senses are alert trying to recollect how they were and constantly sinking in the fact that this is who they are now. Sometimes the child in you wants to fight with the clock trying to make it tick backwards but all you can do is order a couple of drinks and hangout with these old friends and revive those times which made us stick around in the first place. The time gap hardly matters. Whether it’s been a few months or a few years, it’s the present which makes you happy. That very moment, you realize THIS is friendship. You behave as if there has been no void. Even if you feel it the questions and conversations are enough to fill them up. Jumping from one topic to another like the blithely flying migrating birds, the bliss of catching up is beyond these walls of words. And then the topic of discussion is about you and you realize that all this while when you were comparing the present and the past of your friends they were busy doing the same thing. You realize how you’ve evolved and how circumstances have led you to be who you are, as your friends ask you whether you still do this or that which probably you might have forgotten yourself. You realize how you were paying little attention to yourself in your busy life while your friends act as your mirror reminding you of those little moments which mattered to them the most about you. It’s funny how we think and act in one direction while your friends discover the whole new side of you. Yeah! After all this while school friends are still precious. They are still your presents!