Strangers??? No........ Friends!!

Recently I was reading this article about making friends online and how some of them can turn out to be very good ones... It suddenly reminded me of own encounter, quite similar to that, though not exactly, but I did become a very good friend with an absolutely unknown guy!!

It happened almost 10 years back when I was doing my graduation… One day I was having lunch with some of my girl friends… after the lunch when we were leaving there was this bike parked right behind my car!! (Yeah… I used to drive a car in college and my friends used to call me “bade baap ki bigdi hui aulaad”!! ;)) That time I couldn’t drive a bike so I didn’t dare to touch it coz it might fall off!! I looked around but found no one to claim for it. there were some guys standing nearby, so I asked one of them to help me move the bike so that I could reverse my car. The guy removed the bike and I thanked him and we (my friends m me) left.

While I was dropping my friends I saw there were two guys on a Kinetic Honda following us! For sometime time it was fun coz we tried to take long routes and let them follow us. But they didn’t seem to stop, they kept following. I took a few more turns and finally looked in the rearview and found no one!! I was so happy to have dodged them away! Finally I reached home after seeing off everyone.

A month later, I get this call from a guy.
He- Can I talk to S?
Me- Yeah, speaking
He- Hi, my name is D. You don’t know me but I know you.
Me- So?
D - Some days back I followed you and found your address.
Suddenly it struck me that day when those two guys were following us on our way back from the restaurant. But I had lost them!! No!!
D- Hello?
Me- This is ridiculous! What do you want?
D- (His tone suddenly changing) No, I just liked the way you asked those guys to help you with that bike. You know girls now days have so much attitude; they think that all the guys have no other work except for running behind girls.
Me- (thinking what else are you doing now) Thank you.
D- Yeah, and you said thank you to that guy also that day. That was nice.
Me- (still surprised) How did you get my phone number?
D- I looked in the telephone directory.
Me- What? But you just knew my building, how did you know which apartment??
D - I checked with the watch man.
Me- (huh! this guy is stalking me) Please don’t call me again. Slam!!

I was sure I had been very rude and he won’t call again!! But after a few days I was surprised, he called again.
D- I just wanted to be friends with you.
Me- Please, first, I don’t know you and moreover I don’t want to be friends with you. Slam again!!

Again after some days, this guy is back!
D- Hi, its D. Hows you?
Me- (wondering who D) Fine.
D – So hows life?
Me- (suddenly recognizing his voice) Huh! Why do you call me?
D- I just wanted to be friends………..
...........Such conversations continued between us for some time and I dint even realize when we became friends! And once we were friends we would talk everyday discussing about our lives. He would bore me with his philosophy about life and everything and I would listen…He would tell me about his girl friends, his job, his problems… I would bore him with my life and it was like we became the very best of friends. Not even once did he try to propose to me, like I had thought he would!!

Guess what guys, all this was just over the phone… of course he had seen me but I had never even seen him!! :) So one day we decided to meet! But for me it didn’t really turn out to be very good! It was nothing to do with his appearance or anything… just the fact that I liked it more to talk to him on the phone. So we didn’t really meet after that except if we banged somewhere by luck! And believe me it did happen a lot of time!! ;)

We are still in contact, though not like earlier. There is something between us which is different! He still calls me his lucky number “191” (my car number plate) :) I still wonder sometimes that what really happened between us, I mean I am not someone who makes friends so easily! But neverthelss this was a wonderful experience...

Friends Forever!!

P.S.- I may have not quoted the conversation appropriately (like it happened 10 years back). But it was somewat similar... D if u r reading this, please dont laugh ur lungs out!! :D

Friends Forever...

When we grow up, do we just stop making friends? What suddenly goes so badly wrong that we realize that we have no friends at all! We all get busy with our lives, new jobs, new friends, new worries... But the ones who are not that busy with their work and don’t have much to do in their lives; they feel so dejected and lonely… Of course most of us have our spouses who are caring and loving and our families to be there forever. But still, friendship, I feel is the best thing that can ever happen to anyone…

It used to be fun in school, when because of somebody’s mischief; the whole class would have to stand out in the ground in the sun!! And even there, some of the guys would sneak away to play cricket, and the rest of us would be busy chatting and laughing like nothing has happened and it is just another free period! After all, it was the teachers who had to worry about completing the course before exams!!

Doesn’t being with friends make you all the more confident? Don’t we stop taking risks as we grow older? Is it just the age factor or the fact that we don’t have the same kind of friends we had when we were in schools and college… Or is it that we become more responsible and mature!! Well of course we were responsible then too!!

The things we can discuss with our friends and the kind of time we can spend with our friends, can we have the same time with our family?? Perhaps some wouldn’t agree with me. But the rest will '_'... It feels so good when you have spoken to an old good friend after a long time. It doesn’t occur even once how much time has passed by since we last spoke… Everything seems so apparent and obvious while speaking to them. The thinking process kind of suddenly starts matching with each other. They agree on what you agree, and disagree on what you disagree… And when they tell you that something that you are doing is wrong, you just start thinking over it again… It doesn’t matter even if we scream at each other. Things seem so perfect!!

Birthdays were so much fun that time… When friends called up to wishing you; it felt like they really want your birthday to be happy, from the bottom of their hearts!! They would plan surprise parties and invite the guy you had a crush on, and wanted to meet for a long time!! That used to be so much fun!! Coming home late from some party and telling your parents that you were at your friends place, studying for a test the next day!! And the test would invariably get cancelled!!

What happens when you watch a movie like Dil chahta hai or (the recent one) Dostana?? Makes you feel so happy and so sad at the same time. And makes you wonder, where are all those good friends gone?? The point is what goes wrong as we grow older?? Those of us who go abroad for work or whatever, away from all our families and good friends, when we come back, how many of us include meeting our friends also, in the (not so)hectic, or tight, or whatever scheduled small visit… We are the ones who push our friends away from our lives?

Well, this time when I go on my (not so) hectic visit back, I am gonna make it a point to meet all my friends and tell them how much I missed them!! Are you game??!!