Friends

It has been three months since my last post and life just zapped by me with very little time to sit back and relax. That doesn't mean i didnt have idle moments, yes i did but didn't find much to write. Last week i watched a movie titled "Stand By Me" based on a Novella by Stephen King, which also plays the song "Stand By Me" by Ben King. It is the story of four 12year old boys and their journey to locate the dead body of a boy struck by a train. Nothing great about the story line but the film demands attention till the very end.

Its more about the freindship you have at the age of 12. The entire film is narrated in first person by one of the four friends who goes on to become a writer. None of the other three friends make it beyond young adulthood. The narrrator ends the story by saying he will miss his friends and he never will have the kind of friends he had at the age of 12 and asks "Does anyone?"

That took me way back into my memory lane to see if it was really true... at the age of 12 i was more or less a loner..... i have made a couple of friends... but didnt last long.... In those days i was really not sure on why i didnt have any friends or why i left many friends... maybe the fault was with me maybe the fault was with them.... eventually most of my friendships in those years used to end up with an argument or a fight. I would even attribute it to moving to different places and studying in 7 different schools in the 12 years of my schooling.

I guess i was in search of someone to spend some quality time.... i was in search of a person who is more or less like me, shared the same opinions and ideas. As time went by i realized if the person was more like me then there wouldnt be much to talk or share... I was out of High School and entered college and the same thing continued.. this time the problem was with the quality.. I became a strong believer in "you are judjed by the company you keep" and i have set some character traits which were very difficult to find in another person.... I have entered graduation and stopped my search to find a friend that would suit my requirements and started making the best out of the friends i already have.

Thats when the friends i would like to have in my life started happening to me. Friends with whom i could laugh,cry,share, discuss almost anything under the sun. Some of them parted (not due to an argument or fight), some of them departed and a couple of them are still around. These friends did not happen at the age of 12 (maybe i could have had some if not for the arguments and fights), they happened much later in life but, these are the friends i would have really loved to have a the age of 12. One could say what difference does make if they did not happen at the age of 12 and happened at the age of 20 or more. It wouldnt have made no difference except for the amount of beautiful memories i could have stored in the archives of my memory, the number of stories i could tell.

Finally i could sleep peacefully thinking that i was successful in making atleast couple of friends i would cherish my entire life. This is to those friends and the beautiful moments i have shared with them. Thank You for the memories...and the song below is for you

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FX--7gFHkU0