Friendship's come a full Circle.

Its interesting how life brings you around in a complete circle. You start off being the thickest of friends. Almost inseparable. Start sharing the deepest, darkest secrets, petty joys and sorrows, cries of anguish and ecstacy. You grow together - sometimes remembering - sometimes forgetting each other's birthdays.

You undertake your first stint at driving in your friends' car. Accompany each other for new year parties. Talk at lengths about the occult, mysteries of the world, rock music. Watch movies together, hang out and get to know each others' friends. Exchange gifts at house warming ceremonies, interact with each others' family. Accompany one on his first trip out of India.

All this and you might have thought - OH WOW, SUCH GREAT FRIENDS. But WAIT, there's a twist to it. You suddenly fall out of contact. Stop answering emails. Dont pick-up phone calls. Dont reply back to messages. And suddenly, you are transformed into two aliens, who once used to know each other. Its like one moment being the dearest of friends and the next moment (read 6 years hence) living absolutely like strangers who dont know and care about each other.

No..no..no. Life doesn't end there. It moves on! Only, you don't know where its leading. And then out of nowhere, a sudden twist of fate again. You suddenly come in contact with this same person, whom you'd known earlier. With whom you'd fallen out of contact and who you'd thought, you would never ever meet or remember again.

You end up talking for 30 minutes and appraise each other about all that has happened in the last 2-odd years of not being in contact. And it feels as if you were always in contact and never out of touch. Being out of touch puts you in a kind of a time-warp and when you feel that time has stood still when it comes to that particular person, until you come in contact with each other once again.

And when that happens, you, instead of hurling abuses at each other about the lack of contact, somehow learn to appreciate the fact that each one's pre-occupied with his/her own journey of life. And that your paths cross each other's for a brief period during which you experience great friendship and then the paths move on. Now, your paths might cross again or never again, or on the other hand your paths might always cris-cross regularly, whatever be the case its important for you to cherish and enjoy the experiences.

Yeah I know, great philosophical BULLS***, but its an honest opinion, confession, experience - call it what you want. This is exactly what I experienced yesterday when I came in contact with a very chum friend of mine.

And trust me, the feeling's great and I'm just basking and revelling in the sunlight of our rekindled friendship, for I dont know how long will this sunshine last. Might as well enjoy every moment of it while it lasts!!!