Friendships

Now that we have started off with our vacations ... I can spend more time in writing about what I have been having in mind for quite some time now. I am very close to being a "terrible" writer, to be frank, I haven't really written anything before this blog. This is my first attempt to pen down my thoughts, so I don't know how well I am going to do it ... but anyway, I would try to be as frank as possible ... I feel that is the best way one can express oneself. Nothing that is not written from one's heart can be good to read, can it ? Can one write about the beauty of life when he has just come back from a hospital where he saw some loved one fighting against death ? Even if one does write, I believe it can't be good to read.

So ... what is friendship, or whom can I call my friends ? I have thought about this question for months and years together, maybe more so in the last few months or so for some reason or the other. Are there different "levels" of friendship or is it just binary - either someone is a friend or someone is not ? Do friendships have any limits or bounds ? Many questions like these I have been raising to myself, but unfortunately haven't got answers to most of them ... but coming thus far, I doubt whether any person can get answers to these questions ever in one's lifetime. Sometimes then I think, is it really worth trying to answer such questions ? Why not live life by the instant and not think about it at all ... is that the best thing to do ... why does one have to think about friendships / relationships at all ? Does it help us to build better friendships ? Do the people who have written books about friendships really have the best friends one can have ? Again the question comes to mind ... can one really write or tell others about something that he himself has not been able to understand or do well ? Can a "loser" in life write about or tell others about "how to be a winner" ?

I don't really know what I am thinking about at the moment ... plus the fact that I am feeling sleepy - tells me I better stop writing before I put in too much rubbish for others to read. Hope to continue writing on this topic ... and have a better understanding of it myself in the process !

School Reunion

This is one post which I should have made long long ago ... but anyway ... its better late than never !

We had a school reunion on 25th March (long time ago, I know !) in our very own school - BVB, Pune. It was bascially a contri dinner party with the teachers invited to attend it. The overall idea had come up many times before but this time some of my classmates were determined to get us all together and I thank them all for it !

So, it all started off with Snehal Ghone and Pradhan making phone calls to everyone and emailing us about the reunion ... then soon the date was fixed and everybody informed again. As we started realizing that this was happening for sure, more of us got involved in it and helped them out. I was out of the organising committee and infact, was not sure I will be attending the reunion in the first place, as we had our PAF on that very day - in the end, I am happy I chose to go to Pune for the reunion and not stay in IIT for our PAF - the reasons for which will soon appear in some other post I write !

It was great to finally see around 60-65 out of our batch of 80 attending the reunion - with some of us coming to Pune just for that one evening ! We had a wonderful time together ... as we met our teachers and many friends after more than 4 years. It is amazing how the world around us changes ... school was the time when these very people used to be around me for more than 6 hrs everyday and now it is difficult to meet them once in 4 years ! But then ... thats the rule of the game ... change is the RULE of life as they say ... and we have to follow and honour it ! How much one really wants to do that is another issue altogther ... but I believe it is very much necessary. Makes me remember the movie Mohabbatein (one of my favourites although it did not make a mark in the film bazaar ... I liked the whole concept behind the film ... apart from SRK and his emotional scenes ofcourse !) in which Amitabh, who is a firm believer of "static" life if I may call it, saying all the way through "mujhe parivartan pasand nahi ... I do not like changes !" and finally at the end, admiring SRK for showing him the right path and "changing" him for tthe better!

The reunion brought us all together ... many of us doing many varied things in life ... studying medicine to engineering to pharmacy to commerce to law to hotel management to basic sciences to tourism to what not ! Some of us even going into "odd" fields like becoming a DJ ! It was wonderful to know everyone was having a nice time and that one evening made us realise that howsoever different paths we choose to travel in life, we can always feel for each other and get together whenever we wish ! I hope we all keep in touch and see each other becoming "happier" in life !

Later that night ... some of my friends decided we would have a night out at my home. So we started off and on the way, some of my friends felt that we should pick up something to drink in the night, and waited in the way at a suitable shop. Unfortunately, just when we were discussing where to stop and buy it, Manas called up home and forgot about it while driving his car. While his phone was connected, his dad heard things like "ja re, jaldi le ke aa ... soda mat bhoolna saath mein" which were suggestive enough for anyone to understand ! So, the plan was ditched (much to my relief ... mom and dad were not at home, obviously ... but more than that, maybe I would have not allowed all that anyway, I wouldn't like to see some of my very good friends in that state, not in my house anyway ! We then had a Mastani on the way ... went home, enjoyed Andaz Apna Apna ... had some chat ... and dozed off.

A wonderful day I must say ... one which I will remember for a long time to come and hope would come many more times in my life !