All of sudden..out of the blue..it pops into my mind.. those fun and happy days of childhood when responsibilities were a minor speck on the horizon. Those days of laughter, of running around, of naughtiness..all such beautiful memories of time spent.
And as it always does, even today, memories of you accompany those of my childhood days. How can they not, you formed such a big part of it. The first thing that always comes to mind is us leaning against the bars in the corridors of our school, just talking.. being in different classes never made a difference to us.
This is just a memoir of sorts. A tribute to the friendship which lay the basis of all my friendships after that. This is just to tell You, my best friend of all my growing up years, we may not be as close as we once were. I miss that so much I can’t even begin to explain. Today we may not be sharing the same bond we used to, but I always look back with fondness at the time we spent together.
Life is not, and never will be, a bed of roses. I have gone through various feelings of hurt, pain, anger, betrayal, sadness, loneliness, loss, disappointment, and even the hope that our relation may revive to be what it once was. But now I feel a sense of calmness. I no longer go through extreme emotions, of being too happy when we share a good moment or of sadness when we don’t even meet. That is because we have both changed over the years. And what I was refusing to accept for quite many years is that we have grown up individually.
Expecting our relation to go back to what it was is not going to be possible anymore. What is possible though, is to begin a new chapter in our lives. We could get to know each other now; try to understand the kind of people we have become. This is not a fairytale that everything will just fall into its own place. This is reality, and the challenges and unpredictability of it is what makes it so wonderful..so much more beautiful than a fairytale itself.
So my dear friend, it is with fondness that I look back to the days of our past, and with a kind of anxious excitement to our future…wondering, if there is any magic in store for us……
