FRIENDS

Recently it’s been pouring Friends on me. And they have come from unexpected quarters. We know people just on a superficial level. I had many such “acquaintances” that you really can’t term as friends or more.

Then a sudden change happened when I became friends, to a particular friend. Instantly a connection was felt, a connection so strong that it made me realise the missing links. Communiqué my friends like I said in my first blog “un-maligned pure and harmless inconclusive chats” was The Link.

We so often get caught up in those unnecessary thoughts and prejudices and perceptions of our own that we do not even consider giving things a try. We do not try calling people or we do not text sweet nothings. We seldom wish them on time of occasions and depend much on that 100 gram machine called mobile for the slightest memory of that person. “What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”

And then applications like facebook, myspace, orkut and other such innumerable social networking sites has enabled us to have so many so called friends. But can posting something on a wall or tweeting (and other tweet slangs) really replace the voice communiqué? Why do we still feel lonely if we have 500+ friends Virtually?

Through this blog I do not intend to complain. But I miss the walk in the huge garden...the scent of the soil when raindrop embraces it.....I am thankful that I have a Plant in the corner of my room...and can still sometimes feel the scent of the wet soil there, feeling up my heart albeit virtually.