Recently I was at the Annual Day of my school Alumni (Ex-Westcottians Alumni-EWA) at Ranchi. Here every year we meet a lot of people who we knew almost 30 yrs back, when I say 'knew' it really means knowing the person very closely as we got to live with each other it being a boarding school. When you meet a person from those days, now, you tend to receive him/her in a very different way similar to where you left from years back only to realize that things have changed completely, the person you meet now is a complete stranger with whom you will have to connect all over again, it leaves you with a sad, heavy feeling in the heart that your friend is not the person whose certain behavior or characteristics made you fond of him/her. The fact is you may not like him/her for what the person is today, probably it is vice-versa.
A man/woman is incomplete if he/she does not have a friend, rather a friend from the past who knows you through various stages of your life, with whom you can share sorrow, joy success, failure, every single incident of your day-to-day existence, you discuss with the person un-censored, something that you cannot do with any other relationship, just think about it ! A true friend is a very precious commodity something one treasures for whole life, come to hink of it the only person who. under normal circumstances, will be by your side the longest time till the day you or he/she breathe last.
When you loose a person like this its a loss irreparable, I recently went through one and I wish no one has to go through such unbearable pain. So when I meet people from the past I look for a person who can replace my lost friend but in vain, they come only once in life and if you loose them you are left all alone in this huge world of yours not being able to share some feeling or the other with someone, it is a sad thought, I am sorry but its true !!
