In this transforming world and my ever-changing life, there is one thing that has never changed and perhaps will never change; the way i treat my childhood friends. Amongst all the transient factors this conspicuously constant behaviour is what I cherish the most. Be it all my Ahmadabad Buddies, one of the closest one to my heart (so what if Shishir acts indifferently), few of my buddies from KV2 Bhopal, (yeah, I found it hard to resonate with these guys), and of course some of my Kali Bari buddies, I will ever remain the same kid for them.
Now what might amaze you is why I am writing this post. It’s because this Sunday I came across another childhood friend. I have seen her around a lot of times but never gathered the courage to say her ‘Hi’. The reason was not that I enjoyed pestering her in school, along with my buddy Yash. Nor, for that matter, we fought stupidly for getting ahead of each other academically (Well I guess I have made clear how ‘fast’ friends we were. But then this is yet another type of childhood friendship). It was because physically, I have changed drastically and at times people deny recognising me. But I finally gathered the courage and called her name. She paused... creased her brows... her lips were confused whether or not she should smile... She stepped forth and suddenly with a beam of delight spoke,” SAMRAAAT” (yeah there were 4 A’s in my name that evening). I had a sinking feeling in my stomach for I couldn’t believe that she would recognise me. Anyway we couldn’t converse much, but then I always find it hard to speak out in front of girls. No I am not pretending to be innocent. Actually I always run out of topics while talking with them. Luckily we had so much from our 7th class days for chat.
Well about this girl, I must tell you our friendship was like that of a cat and a dog... (Yeah I know all men are dogs... so am I). I must admit she remembers a lot of my nonsense acts way too much than I could even recall. And I thought I had a good memory.
Finally it seems to me that I have added one more friend to my friend list, whom I can really call a friend.
