Growing Old or Growing Apart

It's B'day season! Almost all my friends@BITS have their birthdays

spread over these 2-3 months.Its inevitable for all of them to be

nostalgic about the sweet reminiscenses of campus,on their bdays.

I sure do the same,get lost in reverie with every bday!!.

It used to be an adventurous task preparing for bdays.

A night before-filling up balloons,painting mirrors,creating playlists,

furitively sneaking away with the Monginis cake(the bday gal/guy

pretended well to be oblivious aboutthe cake bringing task),smothering

the same on each other's face,bday bumpsfollowed by endless hours of

chit chatting,jokes till we realised its the next day.

It's not the 'frenzied task of preparation' that needs mention but the

happy moments of togetherness,mirth and joy that we shared;that made

it all so cherishable.The every small amount of effort put in by all just to

make the day special.

B'days were meant to be fun time in college just an occassion to rob

someone out his pocket;when we never realised that we were growing

,one each year.And with each year we were setting our digressing paths

for our aims and goals.

I have become apprehensive of growing up another year coz that'll push

me a li'l more farther from the people I want to cuddle up to.

I did, and I guess all of us would have at one point of time introspected

at the end of four years asking-

Will I find such good friends again?

What if we never met/?

what if we lose touch?

what if she/he finds a better friend than me?

And then just wished if we could hold them tight,next to us forever.

But we are already on the way to grow a li'l apart a price to be paid

for growing old.We are all busy now(except me I guess!!)but-

Who says we dont talk?

we do..its has just become a li'l less often now

(from 7 times in 7 hours a day to 7 mins in 7 days..afterall everyone

wants to be spared of the dammit mobile bills)

so wat if we talk less...I still know how everybody is.

I talk to them daily(excerpts)-

Hey Sup? hw r u? wat doing?(and some following 2-3 lines)

Oh!you think I have turned serious?I Still do laugh a

lot-something like this-

:D :D :D ; LOL!!! ; ROFL!!! ; LOLEST!!!

But I wish I if could laugh out my heart ;louder & harder;so that

my stomach pains a li'l more than my soul does.