...It was a beautiful afternoon the other day as i came out to the backyard and sat by the pool...The sun had taken rest after quite a long while and the clouds had given it a quilt to hide behind...and the whole cloudy and breezy effect made the afternoon just better !! I was all fine sitting there with with my laptop screaming some worth-the-moment tracks from inside the house...till a couple of raindrops hit me....and in no time it was drizzling...i hurried up on my feet and almost turned towards the gate when something, didnt let me go in !
I sat back by the pool..and i realised as the raindrops grew bigger it felt good !!! The urge to go in and get dried was dying out !!! No !! Keep aside that all-girls-love-rain concept aside...m not an exception i gree but not in this case...The whole rain gave me a different feeling...It reminded me of home....Back there....
It reminded me of my jerks...my ass friends...my best friends....many a time has it been so that we had been this crazy to just walk thru the rain like nothing else mattered !!! And then, suddenly crept in a strange fear... A strange fear of losing it all with time.... You know how the world...and life has it....every one of us are gonna grow up and then grow older and just grow old... And in this process we lose them....we lose track of the people we cant live without now...And the point is we never can manage without them....we just learn to get used to their absence....their was a feeling of...what if years later when i walked by that same lane i had been walking for years..and i knocked by his doors, an old lady would walk out and say ..'They dont live here anymore..and i dont know where they live'... ur wondering in this world of texts and facebook and emails..no one loses touch...Nah ! They do !!! In spite of living in this just-a-phone-call-away era people lose touch...they just cant make time....And then when they grow older all they do is look through those photos when all of them looked so merry...so happy...with no fear on their faces...no complications to solve in their mind....because they knew they had each other by their side....even when they were acres away !!! They knew they'll pull it through because even if they cried ....they have people around ...not people who will give them a shoulder..but people who make them pee in their pants laughing....
And then we sit and search around for some old videos in the lost folders of our C drive...which once recorded all those lazy afternoons consisting of three guitars...a friend's room and some absolutely crazy creative minds.... And life was absolutely beautiful...
.....And suddenly everything around you feels so claustrophobic...the pool...the ripples on the water...the rain....the breeze ...nothin pleases you....you sweat...and want to shout out and scream...and cry....and just want to see them...juat a glance would be fine...
''Aami je khujechi tomaye....haye shudhu khujechi tomayeee''...i hear my phone ring and i rub my eyes trying to figure out how the fuck i had kept my phone out here in the rain....and far off i see that vibrating device .. i grab it and the screen flashes 'Ayan calling'... And i look around to see it is 1 at night...my laptop still playing the same track as in my dream (more of a nightmare)...and i go...Fuck dude..that was a bloody dream...i take the call and the vioce from the other side says...."Kire bhai...tor khobor ki.....dara shob kotake conference e tani...lord ta to bodhoy game khelche...aar banu je ki korche o e jane...'...I stammer to say something...and Ayan says...what ??? and i smile and say...'Thikache tui nildeep ke taan...ami jeet k tanchi !!'...and as the lines get connected..i look up....smile and say ...'I missed you jerks...'
FRIENDSHIP....oh...what a thing to do !!!
