The Promise to Keep in Touch…..!

SCENE 1- Last few days of school, during exams!

There is chaos, excitement and a vibrant buzz! Tables are filled with colorful pens as people put their most creative hand-writings on paper!

No! I ain’t referring to the board exam fever… all the fuss is about the stack of ‘slam Books and Autograph diaries’, colorful and happening, hand-made or Archies imported, that await their turns to be filled by our near and dear friends and also the far and hi-bye friends! Different slam books, different people, different equations and different words! But all the questions remain the same and so do their answers (almost). Yet there is a certain joy… of giving away those slams, autographs, signed t-shirts, contact details!

In them and with them we leave a promise… A genuine one! The promise to keep in touch!

SCENE 2- Social Gathering/Campaign/Meet

We meet new people… many for the very first time in our lives! 5 days of togetherness…3 days of laughter…2 days of bonding...a day of love! We humans get attached to each so easily! Some time to chatter and the next moment we appear like the best of friends…bonding together since ages! No we don’t go with a plan to make new relations… new friends! To us it just happens! What is rather difficult for us is the process of parting! The concept of Good bye’s is enough to make some teary eyed! As they say, ‘’there is nothing Good about a Bye’’.

The only thing that plays the soothing role is the promise… A genuine one! The promise to keep in touch!

SCENE 3- Family/ Friends Get-together

We know them… we bond well with some… we fight with some! But we share an emotional chord with them! Family/ Friendly gatherings are the most looked forward to events! If not they end up being fun and memorable eventually… But what we leave with while going is the promise… A genuine one! The promise to keep in touch!

Cause people in our life come and go, but it is when they near their time of parting we realize their role and importance in our lives! Even if not we always leave with a promise to keep in touch! If you re-think its sounds like the most false yet convincing reassurance!

Today we have endless means of staying in touch! Apart from the traditional face-to-face meet-ups, we are surrounded by a TECHNO-WEBBED world! Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google Plus, Skype, SMS, Whatsapp, BBM, Chaton and there are newer options coming up everyday! And yet we know how far and distanced we are from people each day!

We blame our buzy routines despite spending endless hours of wastedness we fail to reach out to those we promised to stay connected with. And yet we manage to find time for our current favorites! We disconnect…or rather just lose network with those running on parallel tracks!

Those promises were not fake! Those reassurances were not masks…

Life moves on… and so do we!

It does not signal to leave behind those people or the promises!

BUT WHENEVER YOU CAN GIVE IT AN ATTEMPT, A SIMPLE GENUINE EFFORT…

TO KEEP UP “THAT PROMISE TO KEEP IN TOUCH”.

J J J

Friendship Day!

" friends are not about words and quotes, they in the journey of your life are a boat"

It’s the first Sunday of August, what we popularly celebrate as the friendship day! As I sit at home being remotely connected to the world, life just keeps screaming how much has it really changed!

May be its not the same excitement that we once had in school! Honestly, friendship day is just another hallmark day- where you can rush and push for gifts, cards, bands and mementos. But what makes it really special is the conscious and dedicated efforts to celebrate friendship.

As kids, the cards and friendship bands were a fancy necessity, a beautiful ritual to us! What made it better was the handmade friendship bands of wool and thread. The cards, the gifts, the special planning for your best friends and eventually a chance to thank your friends at least this one day in a year. The enthusiasm and celebration remained unmatched with those wrist full of tied ribbons and bands! Friendship indeed became a celebration.

As we come the to the present, with ideas like "har ek friend zaruri hota hai",back to today those bands are converted into marker inks and forward texts common for all! An FB status and a tweet on twitter seem enough to express all the love! But there is something that we celebrate beyond the friendship day today, we celebrate a bond of friendship each day! As we share gossips, as we share problems, as we share solutions and as we share support. Those fights, those pranks, those slangs and all that fun are all responsible for engraving a special place for each one in our hearts. Those heart breaks, patch ups, setting and counseling, the success treats and the motivation in failure are tied with the string of our friendship. Distance time, differences and quarrels strengthen the essence of life! Not that we’ll have someone forever. But yeah, if you look through the bright light, the memories shall fail to fizzle out! Smile and let them be! Be and let them smile! J

Not everyone was meant to be a friend forever, but your bitterness shall kill all the sweetness that ever existed! It was meant to happen, they were meant to go! Life is planned before hand like that!

Remember those slam books, with promises of being together forever, never changing and being the same, keeping in touch like the moon and the stars? It wasn’t fake forever, you just didn’t know how things would change!

Remember teasing those times of fun you shared! They were there so that you could remember them with a smile today!

Somethings went wrong, some went your way!

Don’t blame the friendship!

Don’t blame their intentions!

This friendship day, just try befriending the goodness you chose to ignore! Celebrate memories, celebrate friends! Its always great to call an old friend for the good-times sake!

Its nothing you will regret!

Life is beautiful!

Live it, love it, laugh at it!

Befriend happiness, befriend yourself!

Forgive all mistakes and care to care for friends!

Life is this way, no offence!

May be life is nothing like a movie, may be it is!

But good friends make good films (good life, I mean)

Happy Friendship Day to the near and dear and to the gone and far! Every li’l contribution of yours makes my life worth a smile J thanQ for coming right in here!

Lotsa luv! :*

Cheers!