It's a long journey down memory lane since last evening. My friends had fetched up from outstation to attend the wedding reception of their friend's daughter which was scheduled for this evening. So, since last evening it was catching up from where we'd left during our previous rendezvous!
And we'd decided to call on another classmate of our's, who stays a stone's throw away from the place where we live. Accordingly, we'd met at a common point where I'd fetched up after work, followed by a quick bite of lunch. And what a wonderful meeting it was! I'd carried four Cadbury's chocolate bars for the four 'kids' as I called them and it sure did floor them. I was privy to two additional bear hugs from my two classmates and I knew that my innocuous action had touched a deep chord within both!
And, then, it was a long, sentimental journey down memory lane. The thread of conversation went on and on, with none of us wanting it to end and though, there were many times that we'd gotten up to leave, the attempt would be gladly postponed when some untouched school memorabilia suddenly would crop up! And the cycle would continue. The beauty was that the ladies, too, didn't seem to mind and sportingly played along with our madness.
A plan has been conceived to go on the 'Manasarovar yatra', sometime next year. It'd be an occasion to be together and to enjoy nature's beauty along with the people with whom one'd grown up, fought to become 'enemies', many a time, to become friends all over again and spent one's formative years within the school that was, then, our secondary home!
Tailpiece.
A day well spent! And we're already charting the next occasion to meet up again!!
And we'd decided to call on another classmate of our's, who stays a stone's throw away from the place where we live. Accordingly, we'd met at a common point where I'd fetched up after work, followed by a quick bite of lunch. And what a wonderful meeting it was! I'd carried four Cadbury's chocolate bars for the four 'kids' as I called them and it sure did floor them. I was privy to two additional bear hugs from my two classmates and I knew that my innocuous action had touched a deep chord within both!
And, then, it was a long, sentimental journey down memory lane. The thread of conversation went on and on, with none of us wanting it to end and though, there were many times that we'd gotten up to leave, the attempt would be gladly postponed when some untouched school memorabilia suddenly would crop up! And the cycle would continue. The beauty was that the ladies, too, didn't seem to mind and sportingly played along with our madness.
A plan has been conceived to go on the 'Manasarovar yatra', sometime next year. It'd be an occasion to be together and to enjoy nature's beauty along with the people with whom one'd grown up, fought to become 'enemies', many a time, to become friends all over again and spent one's formative years within the school that was, then, our secondary home!
Tailpiece.
A day well spent! And we're already charting the next occasion to meet up again!!
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