Best Friend, err post… well both. This first blog post is a trip down memory lane – a long one at that – to meet my first “Best Friend”.
We all (at least most of us) have that 2 AM friend whom we call our BFF – I am always a little skeptical about the last F (forever for the uninitiated), well, that’s me – and our life is all peachy. At what point of time in life, one attaches that special significance to a friend and realizes that he/she is your best (or close) friend. The earliest memory of a best friend that I remember was when I was in elementary school and AR was my partner in crime. We were classmates from our kindergarten and would hang out (whatever that meant at that age!) together all the time. We played together, ate our lunches together, and needless to say, sat next to each other in class. We spent every single moment @ school together, and in short, all of elementary school, we were inseparable. And then, at the risk of sounding cliched, life happened.
We moved schools, lost touch, got back in touch only to lose touch again – it was a game of hide and seek. The last time I spoke to her was circa 2000/01 and after that, had no idea where she was or what she was upto. And that was till yesterday. I was chatting with a dear friend and somehow the conversation veered to my first school and not sure why, but I googled my first alma mater. To cut a long story short, thanks to the internet (google and social networking), I got back in touch with AR – my first friend and a best one at that. Living across timezones, we still managed to send each other multiple emails on what we have been upto – whom we have lost and gained in the years that went by – and other general updates on our life.
I am amazed at how much we remember of each other and how easy the conversation is and more importantly, how instant the connection was. There was a sense of warmth and genuine affection, that is hard to find otherwise, in her, just like that even though we haven’t spoken to each other properly for almost a decade and a half. Life has taken us in totally different directions than we would have ever thought of as pig-tailed kids of single digit age. Here’s hoping to not let go of her this time and keep her a click away, always!