They come in all shapes and sizes. They display all sorts of
behavioral traits. They exhibit various choices and express various viewpoints.
They come from all walks of life. They meet us at every expected and sometimes
unexpected twist and turn of our life. Their presence adds a variety of flavors
to our life. And their absence! Well, their absence will turn our life into a ‘sugarless
cutting chai’.
School days couldn’t have been memorable without hide-and-seek
during recess, cross and zero during ‘off period’, ‘antakshari’ in the school
bus and competition to come up with the best ‘modern art’ on the last page of
notebook. Summer vacations couldn’t have been enjoyable without ‘galli’
cricket, badminton, carom, cycling and snake-and-ladder. The already difficult
mathematical problems would have turned more difficult without the fun-filled
group studies. Who would have taught us to pipette out acid without sipping in.
Experiments in the laboratory, journal completion in the library, information
browsing for assignments and tallying the notes before examinations- all these
and many such academic endeavors are worth remembering today because we had the
best of buddies in college then. And yes, how can I forget the non-academic
ventures. The partners in crime taught us fun in bunking, flirting, roaming and
dancing. Ginger flavored ‘cutting chai’, shared plate of ‘misal pav’,
hunt for a perfect candidate for the valuable rose, annual festivals and study-less
study tours- nothing would have been worth enjoying if we didn’t have some
crazy pals to multiply the excitement. Why would we look forward to monsoon if we
never had friends who were always eager to go out to climb an old fort? The
deadlines would have truly killed us if didn’t have friends at workplace to
reduce our workload and stress. Don’t our ‘train friends’ make the daily
traveling less tiresome? What makes the
‘young at heart’ take up their morning-evening sessions so religiously- concern
for health or company of friends? Wherever we go, whatever we do… we need friends to double our joys and divide our sorrows.
Life moves on, each phase passes to make way for a new one.
Duties multiply, priorities change, geography doesn’t always cooperate and
commitments come in the way of meeting old buddies. ‘Friendship Day’ is the
perfect occasion to tell all old and new friends, how colorful our life is
because of their presence. The moments of togetherness with some of them might
have been less, but they have surely left their own colorful mark on our canvas.
It is the occasion to convey our good wishes to them. And if we are luckier
with the rest few who still stay in the same city as ours, who still keep
meeting us and we still keep searching for a commitment-free weekend to meet
them; then it is also the occasion to wish that our friendship keeps growing
with each passing year - like the flavor of a vintage wine.
Cheers to all old and new friends!!!
Happy Friendship Day.
- Kalindi Amol Joshi
With Amol Vishwas Joshi (Interior Designer, AAkruti Interiors, Kandivli, Mumbai)
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