My sanity keepers... and Amrita...

My friends almost always astound and overwhelm me. They fly over the land of logic, and still love me. Though am sure its an amazing experience for them. But am still surprised, probably because am not the most punctual of friends to remember their birthdays, anniversaries, etc. One misplaced or damaged phone, and am out of the circuit! Am not the regular caller, message sender, chatter kinds, am no where close to being on facebook too! Or maybe, am not as bad as some others!

So basically, my friends flabbergast me. Primarily because my pals have been mine since ages, since the awkward adolescent times! They are usually angry at me, but i just so love all of them! There is an extremely choicest of group i have, from school, college and neighbourly days! Almost all in weird diverse fields, think except mrit and me, all settled too! We are the ‘free lunchers’! but despite the differences and the distances, i always feel so connected to each of them! And i do wonder how!

I know they are always there for me, in their offices, labs, classrooms, academies  and even home! They all don’t like to live a life as boring as mine, and half of them can never get the hang of what am doing in life, more importantly, why! But they still do lovingly bear with me, laugh with me; at me; know my secrets before i tell them, and surround me with sanity and love all the time! Just knowing that they are there, somewhere!, is enough to calm my nerves.

My friends are the best people on this earth. And i cannot, but thank God for sending all His beautiful angels, just for me!

God bless them all.

And then of course, there is mrita.. don’t know if i should call her a friend or a sister, a sibling who wasn’t born to be mine, but over the years have undoubtedly taken that place for good.  We are citizens of different countries, wish to pursue different professions, have lived away and far from each other for more yrs than we lived in the same city, meet up maybe once in a year (but never on birthdays; and i mess up her birth date too!) and grow each day as different people than what we were once.

But, the best, and also the most surprising part is, that we have been each others support system, anchor, avowed critic and in simple words, best friends for all these many years. Even if that entailed long periods of absence (telephonically, physically, and even internetly), we stuck by! Thank God and touch wood!

Some 12 yrs back (i know! its really been that long!) we met each other, when i was this new student at our school. I had something to share and she seemed to have the most docile face to share ‘secrets’ with! Long incessant, parents troubling phone calls only followed in the following years. We strengthened our bond of friendship, seeing through the many (at that time) breakable and unbreakable moments. Cried, laughed, smuggled, lied, giggled, partied, didnot smoke or drink together! we knew without being told, finished each others sentences, talked through our looks, shared clothes, thoughts and experiences; even when we ended up being in different schools and sections!

She has been a patient victim to so many of my armature poems, has intruded on my letters, settled my disputes, disagreed with me, but never judged me. She has only loved me through all this time, and so have and do I.

Knowing amrita all this time has taught me a lot. She is this impatient angel, who really is America smart! She is this mature, worldy wise woman who always just has the right thing to tell you, have a conversation to make even when there is nothing to talk, and trust me, i have never seen or heard her shout! She is this epitome of sanity, without whom my life sure would be a chaos!

But this angel has her American side effects too, which i have either learnt to ignore or accept. But i think I rather not dwell on that!

Adjusting and growing to like these new people we turned out to be over the years was not a breeze! But don’t know how or why we managed. We never vowed to be each others best pals, but chose it for our ownselves.  And I am only glad that we did and have, for living a life without her, is impossible for me!

love you so much!:)