a special relationship that we share with a chosen few .....
friends , the only relation in which we get the liberty to choose, we don't choose our parents , siblings , relatives, we don't even choose our classmates , teachers or coursemates (and i would n't want to comment on the soulmates part as i've heard they too are made in heaven) but friends .... they r carefully picked and chosen . they might not be the best at something or even may not be best at anything or may be just good for nothing at all but there is something about them that makes them irresistible .... there is a common string that links two friends , it may be the same cricket club , same bus , same bar , same train times or may be the same smoking joints that is where this journey starts and you start getting addicted to them. every encounter with them , every memory with them gets permanently inscribed on ur brain which years later you remember and laugh till your bellies hurt. such is a friend of mine junaid .... junnu as we all call him.
whenever i introduce him to anyone it has to start with the fact that we r friends since the first std of school. i know that is a long long way back (20 yrs). and the blurry memory that i have of that time was when after school, our parents used to come to pick us up. both of us always came together, junaid use to be all neat and tidy as if he was all dressed up to attend another school with the crease of his shirt intact as in the morning whereas on the other hand i used to be filthy as a rat , mom used to play safe by calling out my name at the crowd and the unrecognizable dirt who walked towards her would be me .... and then my entertainment for the ride back with mom is booked ... i would get a heavy dose on how to maintain my uniform. well that was a long time back. we became quite good friends as time passed, i changed my school and so did he but after the 10th grade keeping together got tougher.but he has always remained one of my best buddies ever since....
well junaid is a perfect description of mumma's boy, if u got them in the stores every mom wud love to have one. As in everyone's life there are phases even junaids life had some ( really funny ones) , i was lucky to have witnessed some of them. a phase when he never ate meat ( i m sure it was after watching some crappy tv show that claimed it was slow poison ) the latest being to avoid eating foods with processed sugars as the number of diabetics in the country has gone up rapidly there are many more to the list but if i tell them here ....very very stubborn but also very funny , he will make u laugh in whatever mood u maybe ....has a very varied sense of humour , will adapt to whatever u say or want .... not judgmental at all , will never remember the bad u do to him(the way i m describing him here ). and above all , a perfect gentleman and i am really lucky to have a friend like him ..... today he departs for the USA to complete his pilot ratings , wishing him all the best , fair winds , happy landings and godspeed.......
friends , the only relation in which we get the liberty to choose, we don't choose our parents , siblings , relatives, we don't even choose our classmates , teachers or coursemates (and i would n't want to comment on the soulmates part as i've heard they too are made in heaven) but friends .... they r carefully picked and chosen . they might not be the best at something or even may not be best at anything or may be just good for nothing at all but there is something about them that makes them irresistible .... there is a common string that links two friends , it may be the same cricket club , same bus , same bar , same train times or may be the same smoking joints that is where this journey starts and you start getting addicted to them. every encounter with them , every memory with them gets permanently inscribed on ur brain which years later you remember and laugh till your bellies hurt. such is a friend of mine junaid .... junnu as we all call him.
whenever i introduce him to anyone it has to start with the fact that we r friends since the first std of school. i know that is a long long way back (20 yrs). and the blurry memory that i have of that time was when after school, our parents used to come to pick us up. both of us always came together, junaid use to be all neat and tidy as if he was all dressed up to attend another school with the crease of his shirt intact as in the morning whereas on the other hand i used to be filthy as a rat , mom used to play safe by calling out my name at the crowd and the unrecognizable dirt who walked towards her would be me .... and then my entertainment for the ride back with mom is booked ... i would get a heavy dose on how to maintain my uniform. well that was a long time back. we became quite good friends as time passed, i changed my school and so did he but after the 10th grade keeping together got tougher.but he has always remained one of my best buddies ever since....
well junaid is a perfect description of mumma's boy, if u got them in the stores every mom wud love to have one. As in everyone's life there are phases even junaids life had some ( really funny ones) , i was lucky to have witnessed some of them. a phase when he never ate meat ( i m sure it was after watching some crappy tv show that claimed it was slow poison ) the latest being to avoid eating foods with processed sugars as the number of diabetics in the country has gone up rapidly there are many more to the list but if i tell them here ....very very stubborn but also very funny , he will make u laugh in whatever mood u maybe ....has a very varied sense of humour , will adapt to whatever u say or want .... not judgmental at all , will never remember the bad u do to him(the way i m describing him here ). and above all , a perfect gentleman and i am really lucky to have a friend like him ..... today he departs for the USA to complete his pilot ratings , wishing him all the best , fair winds , happy landings and godspeed.......
