Thursday, August 19, 2010

It's funny how we live life.
Spend decades in a city, make friends, make promises, write letters, gift earrings, cry over coffee.
Then leave all that behind for another city.
Another life.
Another set of friends, a new set of promises, type in texts, gift more earrings and gloss over tears.
Then you leave all that and go back expecting people to be the same.
The kind who made friends with you, made promises, wrote letters, gifted earrings, hugged when you cried.
But they change.
And you are left rummaging through old letters, locating pairs of earrings and lying awake in Caffeine induced insomnia.

16 comments:

Karthik Purushothaman said...

people should stop giving you earrings. What about a necklace instead? :)

Karthik Purushothaman said...

Why isn't anyone else commenting on this post? The story of her life, isn't this what makes Bedatri Bedatri?

I think it is.

Neel said...

This is an awesome piece...buckets of rain. Love ya.

Indranil said...

Loved this, and so true!

Indranil said...

see i commented,are you happy karthik?

Karthik Purushothaman said...

sad that you commented for my happiness as opposed to the obvious. This isn't some contest anyway.

thanks, though :)

Annie said...

yes.....and then there are times when we realise that the one person we thought we knew so well is actually so different......

Magically Bored said...

We all change. And we move on. Sad truth of life.
Places change, people change, everything's in flux.
But you must have got lots of earrings by now! ;)

Karthik Purushothaman said...

miss B,

the blog's the only way I get to know you're out there on the other side these days. Please write some more, and let me know, you know.

Unknown said...

So true.. All these changes are so much a part of life. yet they hurt so much.. I can feel every bit of this, right now..

Unknown said...

this just makes so much sense!
:)
love you buckets of rain!

The Reluctant Rebel said...

For those of you who havve seen it, this reminds me of the "How I Met Your Mother2 Dopplegangers episode.

Angika said...

Meant to comment on this long time ago. Liked it and totally agree :)

~Moo-lah Buz!nezzz~ said...

.....and yet thats all what we live for.
beautiful. :)

loony girl said...

..and you are left rummaging.. :)

sujaan said...

loved the sense of hurry in the post... apt with what it conveys... lovely! and yes one does feel like Rip Van Winkle...