Reestablish

Another good thing that has happened in the last 6 months or so is that I have been able to reestablish my friendship with lots of them from my school, college, previous work etc. Thanks in part to all the major networking sites like facebook, orkut etc. Thanks in part to all my friends who took the effort to locate me. A big thanks to this blog and Google that helped most guys find me.

I sometimes used to wonder why I am writing this blog. Well this here is a good reason to do it. People who used to wonder about what kind of guy I am could get a sneak peek into my life and thoughts.

It really was great to talk with most of them over phone and reminisce about all the pleasant memories of my youth. Hopefully I keep in touch with them from now on.

Lost

Have you wondered how many friends you have had through out your time in life? I was wondering about it. It’s just amazing how many have just come and gone throughout my life. I am partially to blame because of the fact that I am not very good in keeping touch with them. But it’s just amazing the number of faces that come to my mind when I think of it.

I think most of the friends we have are what I call 'impermanent' friends (for a lack of a better word). They are with you during a particular phase of life – School, College, work etc… But once you move on, you lose the commonality you had with them. Once you are physically far away from them, the loss of commonality and the distance makes the friendship go dead. In fact even if you call to talk with them, you’ll be amazed to find out that there are no similar topics for you to talk about. So eventually as times moves on such friendships die.

There are some I would like to call ‘thick’ friends. I think you all know what I mean by ‘thick’ friends.

Now looking back, I wish that I still had contact with some of those 'impermanent' friends.