Wishing you a splendid Friendship's day

One day out of 365 to celebrate a family you get to choose. Enough? Not quite, but because someone chose to earmark it, celebrate it I did (Do I need a reason to celebrate? Hell no!! Give me salary and I will give you 101 ways of burning it. Friendship's day was a coincidence!)

If this day gives me a reason to catch up with friends I haven't seen in a year, I would say a day like this is definitely worth it! It's ironical that being in the same city we don't run into each other as much as we would want to. Saying that everyone has gone their own way, what with matrimony, post graduation, jobs et all, is such a flimsy excuse , I agree ( and yes you have my permission to throw rotten tomatoes at me) But sadly that is the way it is. I am more clued into what's happening in your lives (yes you my regular reader (Oh I can be so vain, and it feels SO good, thank you!)) than what's happening to someone in the same city. At times it saddens me no end to see us drifting away like this and a day like this is a desperate measure to catch up and stay together.

This day last year my friend wasn't married. The same day this year she is! It amazes me no end that something so huge awaits each of us, and at this moment in time we don't even know it! It might bring a turn around and it might take us to directions we never imagined we'd turn to. And here we sit and think that we've got our lives majorly figured out. Someone who isn't part of your existence today might run into you tomorrow and would make you go "Heck where were you all these years!". Friends, colleagues, someone special. Anyone. Someone up there has weaved such an interesting tapestry of events for each of us. All that we need is patience in abundance and humility to accept what life randomly throws at us.

There is a reason why they say that every relationship needs constant working upon. Left to themselves people can easily drift away. You could be spending all of your waking moments with them today and the same time next year, you might have no clue where they are and what they are doing. It takes some effort to keep reconnecting, and trust you me it's worth it! There was a reason why you clicked initially and became friends. That reason and many more need to be rediscovered every day every year. It's not always that you can afford to part with the precious. Simply because they don't make people like them anymore!

I cannot thank my stars enough to be blessed with friends who have come to mean the world to me after my family. Today they left no stone unturned to make it truly special for me. Revisiting the places which were our usual hangouts during our college days brought back so many fond memories. Eateries which have almost become our places of pilgrimage weren't left out of the itinerary either. The same pizza dripping with molten cheese tasted so much better and the same cup of Mocha tasted so divine with my best friend around.

But this leaves out an essential part of my friends circle. And that includes you. Each of you who read me are equally special to me. I know for a fact that I would have given up writing had it not been for you who care to read what's happening to me. Had it not been for your encouragement, support and appreciation, this place would have ceased to exist.

I don't know how each of you got here (I would really want to know if you have the time), but like I keep saying, I am mighty glad you found me. Distance might separate us, but I feel like I've known many of you since so long! We might be different as far as our modus operandi is concerned, but somewhere our thought process was identical which is why we continue to stay connected. Today you are here, tomorrow you might not be, and someone else might be, but I truly appreciate your presence at the moment and would like to

for being there for me and with me at every step in my life. I wish each of you limitless happiness and success :-)