Friends...

Those were the days when social networking meant meeting with people, visiting their homes every now and then and sometimes calling them only if both parties could afford a phone. We were a big gang of friends who used to meet face to face everyday. We had common hobbies - playing football regularly, cricket occasionally and watching movies very rarely. Everyone of us was well aware of each other's activities.

There were four of us who had their nicknames starting with 'R'. Twice so happened that we bought movie tickets and got tickets for row #R. It sounds very childish today but that point of time we became very happy about it. There was one guy who was a bit richer than rest of us. He was the one who used to treat us on his birthday every year. Rest of us were so shameless that we didn't even bother to give him a gift many a times. And as they say, history repeats itself, trust me it does, now its me who does the same thing. I am not complaining, this friendship is one of those prized possessions I have in my life.

At that point we used to look at girls as if they were from a different planet (later on I came to know they were from Venus, how true I was). They pretended to be very delicate yet mature, all of them acted as they had many followers and tried to teach men etiquette at every step. While most of them were unbearable, some were really thoughtful, mature and stylish. I did not have a girlfriend then (I anyway never qualified to have one) but I did like those few who stood out in the crowd.

Then came the time all of us had to choose life over friends. Everybody started moving to different directions giving friendship a break. Meeting with each other started becoming a weekly affair and after sometime a monthly affair. For me it almost became a yearly affair after I moved to Delhi.

Moving to Delhi was the best decision thrusted on me by my parents. It changed my life, more importantly it changed the way I looked at my life. Its going to be a long story. I hope to talk about it sometime.