hasta luego, intimos amigos! *

"Hell-heloo".. the voice came cracking over the telephone line, it was barely audible but when i did fathom the person at the other end,Oh! boy i was overjoyed. It's been close to a month since i last saw her walk through that aisle with the tickets in her hands, walking away from me was a friend, confident and my punching bag. Endless mails and chat sessions are the only means to stay in touch but its doesn't quiet amount to the rabbiting on over the phone or in coffee shops we used to indulge in earlier. As i look back on all that has happened, growing up, growing together, how we laughed and bitched, as i look back on all those things i realise how golden those days were. The past is buried forever and the future, well its pretty bleak my end but its the memories that binds these two different world together. Pretty philosophical huh? A little secret, u don't have to be a O.V.Vijayan to sound philosophical you just need to dwell on territories that are sensitive !

Friends are discovered, friends are lost, pretty much a vicious circle , and its painful when u sit and think of life 10-20 yrs from now. How many would remain? How many you would recognize , when you bump into them on the road? Will the new ones replace the old ones? Oh boy im gettin into my once-in-a-while-sentimental moods, but it does make u think about how fragile bonds are. Few months from now my friends from office who keep me company during lunch and chai breaks will become another smiling face on yahoo messanger. I faced this after i stepped outta school and i face it now, 8 months after bidding adieu to college life. We all part with the promise of "keeping in touch" but end up cuddling in our own "busy" cocoon which drifts the frail bonds to intangible distances.
Why these incoherent thoughts now? Well a lotta ppl i know are crossing the oceans, higher studies being the perpetrator and as they leave with the promise of keeping in touch from thousands of miles away, deep down i know a seperation for 2+ years will create a long bridge that cannot be trodden easily. And another factor is marriage, as jagan asked one day "Ann you think we can talk and bitch like the way we do now after u girls get married ?" , at that time it sounded like just another jagan-statement but now it doesn't , when i hear savi's stories of how shy and handsome some of the prospective grooms she's seen are.
Change as they say is constant , its memories we need to cling onto.


*untill later,chadi-budi friends