Friendship day special

It’s been a while since I have sat at the writing table wondering what to write about. The foremost thing which pops to my mind is my much awaited, full of fun and gaiety and on the fringes of being adventurous, outing with friends, incidentally on the day when the association with friends is celebrated world-wide.

Having had a hectic last couple of months, I had not been able to spend quality or otherwise time with my any of my friends: college friends and even office friends whom I seem to see every day. Though the meet with college friends hasn’t taken place and has itself become much awaited, the one with office friends did take place and at what a grand level!

After many discussions, plans and subsequent cancellations,
the final plan:
 Movie: All of us had heard a lot about the success of “Inception”, yet some of us were keen to watch the third in the series of Twilight saga. But the problems with the timing of the shows tilted the choice in the favour of Inception.
 Venue: Big cinemas. Every one of us is so much into discussing and weighing of options, that most of our time is lost into that. Though, this is one of the fun parts we share. Meeting discreetly at lunch times, when the office is empty of its other peeping and overhearing inhabitants is altogether so much fun to do.
 The Gang: There is a reason why ‘The Gang’ came later than ‘Movie’ and ‘Venue’. The shift of the choice of the movie changed the number of people. Me, Komal, Pooja, Prarthana and Krupali. Aloki was going to come if ‘Eclipse’ had been the movie, but alas, maybe it was not meant to be. And of course, there are always last minute cancellations. Krupali couldn’t make it till the final time. It too has a story behind it, as everything most of the time has. But I think it would be better if it were told by her. (Krupali: We will be expecting that story when you comment  )
 Later: Eat, talk, chatter to our heart’s content, make up for the time we hadn’t met, roam around, maybe shop and do anything we wanted to do.

The plan looked and felt good and I am immensely glad to say that it executed itself so well that the evening was loads more than I had expected. My expectations had been bound and it had limits, but the actual part left a beautiful feeling inside.

The movie was good, as its reviews said. Till the last moment of the movie, it had us on the edges of our seats. Grand performance by Leo and hats off the intricate story line. All we could think of was: how can a person have such a winding plot?

The most satisfying part was when we first sat in the chocolate room and then at McD’s and talked to our heart’s content. There were philosophical talks, our joint experiences, the changes that had happened to each individual since we had met and the coming life. We laughed at the tiniest of things. The setting and of course all of us were fantastic.

While we were having all the fun, rain poured and thundered. And finally it was time to leave for home. I didn’t want to leave. I was feeling like extending the time for just a few minutes. The condition being: those ‘just a few minutes’ shouldn’t end. I was feeling drunk on happiness and masti, feeling reckless and impulsive, feeling like doing something adventurous. One thought was watching two movies back to back, but it didn’t work out. And we were lucky it didn’t, otherwise we would have got stuck in the rain.

In the end, I did get my wish of a little adventure. We got stuck in the rain water. Took us 45 minutes to cross one particular road. And even that felt good. Of course, bless God for helping us get out of it without any difficulty. This particular episode made the evening even more memorable. Well, the tongue lashing Komal had on reaching her house was another matter altogether.

I wish I had at least one pic of us to revisit the evening by. We were so lost in ourselves, it clicked no one to click a picture. I am sure, the memories are permanently itched in our mind, they won’t wash away.

It was one of the best friendship days I ever had in my life. Cheers to my loving and caring friends!