How it feels to catch up with long lost friend

Getting back to writing a blog after a long period of absence. Wanted to share a personal feeling about losing a very good & close friend long back and able to connect with him again.

We were very close friends during our college days and used to hang out almost every day during the 3 years of our college days, during which we studied together (special studies, called night studies, more of it detailed below), watched scores of films together (across languages – Tamil, Hindi, English), roamed around, but not much of bird watching (you know, what I mean). For he was not that sort of person then and there were much in common between us.

Night studies – It was something that we prided, meant to catch up on studies and resolve accountancy & mathematics problem together and help each other. But all we did were, we spent 1 hr of study, 3 hrs of chatting, 1 hr of walk in night (smoking) & feeling having achieved our objectives. This friend was a bit in accountancy at that point in time, but was very determined to understand & score good marks.. This continued for the entire period of college.

Our friendship continued after our college days too, even when he moved cities, to study Law in Bangalore, while I continued to be in Chennai, pursuing my own goals in studies. We exchanged letters (postal, that was prevalent in 90s).

And as fate had, we met again in Mumbai, when both of us landed for our respective jobs –he in law & myself in a 9 to 6 desk job. Our hanging out continued again, with watching films together almost every week.

But fate did not allow us to continue this for long, and we lost connection and with no communication or contacts. It must have been 15 years now since we lost touch, during which I had tried to find his whereabouts through all common friends and also searching online, but just could not. There must not have a single instance where in college friends reunion, we have not asked each other about his contact..

Of course, networking has changed a lot in these 15 years, with facebook, whatsapp, mobile etc. having improved significantly and tracing a person is far more easier. And through a sheer luck, one of college friend got hold of his contact number. Spoke to my friend and found him being around very much in Chennai now and doing well for himself. Practicing law independently, has pursued his film interest to another level, with a screenwriting course at New York Film Academy, has written 2 books and much more...

Would not want to miss him again, and would like our friendship to resume from the place, where we lost each other. But then, there is a lot that have happened in my life in these 15 years, both of us having grown busy in our individual life, family responsibilities have got added etc., and need to see how much time we are able to spend, without it impacting our other priorities… Also, physical distance (he in Chennai & myself in Mumbai) needs to be factored.

But having said that, the feeling of finding your close friend back after such a long period of gap is amazing. Truly friends are forever!!