Late morning I was lying on bed with a book in my hands, reading a fiction fantasy and doing message chat side by.
The book was at some climax in middle and I loathed the msg tone disturbing me at that time. I turned my cell phone to silent and put my whole concentration in the pages.
I was so engrossed in the novel that I dint notice the cell phone ringing. The cell rang again and as it was on silent it vibrated. The vibration caught my attention and I checked the number on the mobile screen. It was not a known number.
"Hello"
"Hello, am I talking to Anurag?"
"Yeah, who is this", I asked. I felt I knew that voice, but could not identify. Then suddenly an image of a school friend flashed in my mind. Yes, I knew, it was him.
“Hi Rahul how are you,” I asked and surprised him.
Rahul and I studied together eight years ago and since then had been out of touch.
The conversation started with formal questions about life after school, academics, future plans and (being guys, obviously) about chicks.
Before long, the conversation shifted to sharing memories of those days. The conversation geared up and made the environment tangibly nostalgic. Tardily we went into the past and time ran with the velocity of light. The moment got pregnant with elation mixed with exhilaration and excitement. We ended up fixing a meet the same evening.
The life which seems slow like every hour passing slowly and making it to days then weeks and then months to years, indeed moves at such a pace and makes it difficult for you to cope up.
Time passes by in years and you won’t even get apprised. At some pedestal of life you will find yourself pondering down the years and find how much you have missed and came across in spite of all the success you have cherished.
Usually the time and distance come into play and grow between relationships making them apart or losing them behind. We keep up with the pace of other worldly things and we get ahead of many other things and relationships are among them.
But such moments strike and the thing that you know a person or had known he/she some time back dispels the mist of time and distance.
In the crowd the feel of knowing a person at times is enough to make you trust that person. Aftermath it doesn’t really matter whether you were close to each other in past or opposites, you played together or just had few handshakes and you stood with them or against. The only thing matters are that you knew the person at some stage of your life. The goods or bad of that person goes into obscurity and the only thing filters out is the comfort.
This incident made me wonder a million dollar question, “Are we really busy in our lives or it is just one of the oldest and lamest excuse which we use so often as a solution.”
Few days later I got lucky and met the person apart relatives, I got acquainted with after appearing on this land. I hardly could spell advertisement and we became friends.
They became non existent for few years and now I feel no shame in keeping my head down and apologising for being such away and missing the love they have for me.
I learnt something.
Life isn’t only about love and relationships instead unlike fairy tales it is more about practicality which has got both the ends and shades in between.
