Once you complete the journey from a College Student to a Working Professional; your life enters an inward spiral. It becomes monotonous, and the gregarious become recluse. College is the last stage of your life, where most of the people around you are your age and being irresponsible is expected. It's also the last stage where you make FRIENDS. Everyone after that is just an acquaintance or a professional relation.
It's only when you have graduated, from college and from irresponsibility that the "mundane life" begins. The one where you have to carry the burdens. The burdens of responsibility, work and life itself. It is then that you look for little respites, the phone calls to far-off friends, weekend getaways and rare meetings with the ones close to heart.
This is precisely what I experienced lately, the exhilaration of uniting with FRIENDS. A much needed respite from the hassle and hustle of everyday life. A break from everyday routine of office, home, work and study; a constant struggle to achieve more. It was like going back to college, in the company of one's who know you inside out. The one's who'll make fun of you for the most trivial of things. The one's who'll say "you have not changed"; after all that has changed!
Even when you have been- days, months or years apart; you realise none of that and it all seems like yesterday when you were together. They make you forget, the office, the work, the study, and the routine. It's like a free-fall in time. You lose touch with the current and jump to being silly, stupid and candid. The burden of wearing a mature personality is shed.
It is no surprise then that the highlight of a trip to a place like Goa would be how Chotu mimicked a boy on the airport or how Shukla bustled with energy at 6 a.m on that first instant of uniting or how Daamar would be his classic self all throughout. The destination was just the backdrop, the real pleasure was in reliving the precious moments of being together. It is what I realise now, that it could have been anyplace in this world and we would still have had fun.
Respites like this are most needed to not let those friends and memories evanesce. It's important to have such unions to give yourself an opportunity to shed everything off your shoulders and have pure fun. With each passing year, it would get more difficult to maintain the trend. But it's imperative that we don't succumb to such pressures and realise the importance of being "you" for those few days a year. I hope my friends avow this and value those moments of togetherness.
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
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