Life is change…
One moment, you are overshadowed and the next you are underneath the bright, bright sunlight. A person's life is ever changing, drifting through different phases. Each phase of your life teaches you an important lesson, makes you a different person altogether and leaves behind.. memories! Sweet, sour, bitter memories. And sometimes all you have to hold on to are these!
Well, in my case now, I'm close to the end of perhaps the most important era of my life: School. 15 years of waking up at the crack of the dawn, dressing up groggily, boarding that rickety school bus, yawning through the morning assembly, attending those boring class lectures [standing out through half of them], buttering up teachers, the lunch-breaks, endless gossip and later those bitching sessions with friends, homework, punishments, exams, the moments of ecstasy after scoring high, and the moments of distress and blaming the teacher if scored low, dreading the parent-teacher meetings, the school picnics, the discipline, bunking classes with the fear of getting caught, friends, fights, crushes, heartbreaks.. What not! And now, suddenly, all will be gone. Snapped off out of the blue. No more carrying the label of being a “school-girl.” College brings responsibilities with it. And takes away the “innocence” tag..
All there will be left of it are memories. Of friends, teachers, everything.
We part with a promise of never losing contact, never forgetting each other and always remain the best of friends. And amidst all this, I can’t help but wonder: Is it really going to last?
I ask you, are you still in contact with all your school friends? And if you’re still in school, will you always be?
We all will get into different colleges, move to different cities, meet new people, make new friends, then get some jobs, get married, have a family of our own. Everything’s going to change. Then when are we going to find time for the long lost era? All the promises will seem childish then and seemingly impossible too. Maybe we’ll remember them once or twice in our lifetime… And meet them at reunions or so. Things change, people change and life goes on.
It’s heartbreaking to think of it now. Some of the people who hold such importance in my life now will become mere memories. Shadows of what once was. “The saddest part of life is when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”
And yet I promise. I promise to remain in touch till the end. . I promise, to never let go. I promise to remain their friend forever…
Change is life…
Lessons Learnt:
1. Life’s keeps drifting through different phases and leaves behind only a handful of memories!
2. Everything changes: you have to live with it.
3. Things don’t usually turn out the way we hope.
4. If you really try, you can prove the one above wrong! ;)
