How do you respond to the question how have you been? And that too to a friend whom you talk to almost after a lifetime. Should you be responding with a laconic comment such as “hmmmmm!!! am okay!!?” Or should you ramble about everything you have been through during the years you didn’t or couldn’t see each other. A friend with whom you used to share so many things years ago.
“The more things change the more they remain the same.” Most of us would agree to disagree with the quote. I am not an astute observer but I didn’t fail to notice the changes in my friend. I sincerely hope that the changes I observed are for better rather than for worse. And I wonder as to how would my friend be taking the changes in me. It’s difficult, for me, to ascertain the changes in me over the time.
Yes, we have traversed a long distance from what we used to be. Some of us have been able to achieve what we had been aspiring for and some of us have conveniently or inconveniently accepted aspiration as an end to itself. We have compromised and have learnt to improvise as we have moved along. Acceptance comes easier now.
Anyways, I was talking about talking with a friend of mine after years of not being in touch. And I felt good. It was an exhilarating change from an otherwise mundane office life. We kept babbling to each other, things coming out of us gushingly as if we were teenagers. Trying to catch up with each others past. How is your family? Do you have any girlfriends? How about work? Ah!!! and are you in touch with so and so. Tell me about your break ups. And it went on and on. It took a while for both of us to shed our inhibitions, but it was worth it.
It was nice to meander through the path once you had traveled, not so long ago, and the memories of which lie latent in the innermost recesses of your mind.
