Social networking has done wonders! It brings back people whom we long lost thanks to the course of life and its different directions. There are many such friends whom I have had met after decades. The euphoria in meeting someone you lost and catching up is indeed charming and nostalgic!
This afternoon I was chatting with one of my friends whom social networking had brought back to me. After we found each other we exchanged phone numbers, spoke to each other, and caught up on all the lost time. Ever since his once in a while scraps and my replies has been the mode of communication.
The common thread that ties us together is OOTY! Yes that’s where I grew up. Amongst the lush green hills and ripples of the lake, white sheet of frost in winter and colourful flowers in summer. Long winding roads that had Mother Nature dressed in her most beautiful, luring you to fall in love. And fall in love you will. With the place and the people, warm, friendly, childlike and ever ready to help!
While talking to each other we of course took another trip down memory lane. We were talking of how we first met, thanks to a Rotaract Club meeting we were going to in Kochi (Cochin then). It was just after the results of my 12th boards and I was at my depressed worst since I had not fared too well. A friend had invited me to this trip saying it would at least serve to distract me.
Believe me though this was so many years ago, I remember every small detail from this trip. But incidents and people from later in life are not so well etched in my memory. For instance I do not recall names of many of my classmates from my masters in communication class (MOP Vaishnav).
This fact was brought to the fore while I was talking to this friend. We went into finer details of who all were there on the trip, who all sat together. What we talked and even where we got off to eat!
From the time I had this interesting conversation with this friend of mine there is only one thought predominantly playing in my mind.
Why is it that we remember some parts of our life like they occurred yesterday while a few more (even if recent) just vanish into thin air?
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