Transiency

We humans are weird creatures. That is true in many sense but one in particular being us trying to hoping that the inevitable doesn’t happen. We know that many things can’t be avoided, they are bound to happen still we hope it doesn’t happen. We try to hold on to things long  after they have changed or the person in concern has changed not realising that we ourselves are ephemeral

            As children we make many friends. The logic of separation is not known to us and also our immature and undeveloped emotional quotient protects us from going through any sort of pain. But as we grow up and some of our friends change cities or even countries we start to understand that people in our lives are not permanent. The complete realisation has still not hit us.

The college starts and you realise the world is actually much bigger than what you thought it to be. The pain of separation hits you for the first time. Your school friends are not with you any longer. You are in new surroundings. Everybody makes a name for themselves. Some as topper, backbenchers, latecomers, sleepyheads. You get yourself a personality which is very hard to come out of. Now you have new friends and new relations, the past ones take a back seat. Two years down the road you hardly remember anyone from school, only special ones whom you talk to occasionally. Whenever you go back home from college during and meet your school friends during holidays, you come to know everyone has changed as in developed. No one, not even you are the same person you were in school. Now your life revolves around your college buddies. But wait a minute, before you realise the college is done and you are pushed to the professional world. Again promises are made to college friends. I realised all the promises made to friends will only remain promises. After college half of your friends are working in places you have only heard of, a dozen of them have already left the country to pursue masters and others are also are doing something in their lives. You have no idea when will you meet them and will you ever. Everybody has started a new chapter in life.

            So as I am writing this, two of my good friends have left for the US, one other is working in a remote location and one other left our hometown for his work. And people I was so close to college, I don’t even know what they are doing, still I hope that we meet again after sometime not able to digest the fact that change is imminent. So even after knowing that the school friends were not permanent, nor were the college ones we hope others or other things in life would be. The person we love, the house we live in, the friends we have, the life we live and many more.