How foolishly we giggled away!! That was my first afternoon out with my school friends after embracing my new found freedom. Dodging various hurdles and stuffing commitments in garbage bags, Ritu, Nisha, Nita and I met up at the mall for a meal together.
After the initial debate of where we should eat and what we should eat, we settled down. Ritu and I dream of mannequin like figures but refuse to cut down on eating…so that is easy! Nisha binges on special days but Nita is "self discipline" personified!! She only wanted “tomato shorba” lest her hour glass figure gathered an inch!!!
We gorged, suffered from profuse verbal diarrhea, minced each other up and giggled …till we realized that our responsibilities were frantically beckoning us.
The following evening was equally thrilling. Jashodhara, Reena and I were 19 year olds once more. Just a fortnight back Jasho and I had reconnected with our dear friend Reena from college on Facebook. The excitement was spilling out and it was imperative that we meet. Both of them came by to my house and time stood still! With “google eyes”, grins glued to our ears, we hugged one another in ecstasy! Soon there was a talkathon in process…statements, questions, exclamations whizzing around the room, often colliding with one another. “Do you remember…?” “Of course you did, silly”!, “Oh dear, no!!”…we skidded down memory lane, laughed at our insane escapades, and fondly remembered other dear friends and our wonderful professors. Updating one another on our present families was purely incidental. There was one thing that was certain. We were definitely going to make up for lost time!
At night I dug out my old photo album and gently turned the wrinkled pages. There we were, with silly expressions, posing together as if we were beauty queens! How little we cared for the world, how little we knew about its complexities. Yet we thought we knew it all, in fact had conquered it all!
28 years later, we have evolved. Life has happened to each of us and we are what we are. It is only a few fortunate beings who can transcendent time and giggle foolishly once again. I have begun collecting such moments greedily. They make me richer than the Kohinoor diamond would.
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It's Yesterday Once More.....Pretentions, Inhibitions, Apprehensions all fade away and one re-lives the past in sheer bliss. Priceless experience and blessed are those who can experience these moments! I had once said (about a moment like this) that I would "die to re-live Yesterday Once More".....
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Like you, I too cherish such priceless moments....moments spent in the company of friends who love us and friends who show care for us by sharing their precious time with us!
ReplyDeleteThese are really priceless moments...going back memory lane they make you cry and laugh at the same time.
ReplyDelete'Friendship is a promise made in the heart,SILENT...UNWRITTEN...UNBREAKABLE by distance...UNCHANGEABLE by time...Once a friend is always a friend.'
This one is a true testimony of how our spirit never changes inspite of life happening to us all, also because we choose our friends we always will choose friends with simlar hearts to ours no matter where in the world we live or how old we are. I always tell my children your friends describe who you are.
ReplyDeleteI trust the radiation is going well and the sideeffects of chemo are gone.
it's been such a blessing to be able to reconnect - and all that giggling leaves me with a foolish smile on my face for a long time after!
ReplyDeleteThanx all of you for your wonderful comments!! It only makes me realize how truly blessed I am to have such dear friends!!! :-))
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