Where the heart belongs ..... ( part 1 )

May 17 th , 2015 .... an unforgettable day , a memorable day ... a day many of us will write in golden letters in the Diaries of our hearts .

Months of planning by our dearest and most resourceful friend Arun K .... a person loved and respected by all of us .... made this day possible .

First a Wats App group , then searching for long lost companions , finding them , adding them . 

When we started talking we realised what we were missing all these years ....... Pieces of our heart and our very soul which were in each other , given to each other 18 years back ! 

B.Sc Zoology batch of 94 - 97 ! ..... when we met each other as strangers , took each other as friends ..... and when we became each others heart and soul we do not know . 

The most amazing thing is that over these years responsibilities , distance , life has separated us ... Only physically . 

What we realised yesterday was that the bonds that tie the heart and soul are forever . and they just get stronger over the years . 

So many years i have passed by Avenue Regent , Ernakulam .... a hotel .... not even giving a second glance . But after yesterday its become a place that holds few of the fondest memories . 

A place where the long gap of 18 years just melted into nothingness and we all became 17 and 18 all over again !!! 

How magical .... it was like stepping into some Mystical magical land .... where u keep one step inside and you find yourself in a magical land .... where everything is filled with only love , the one place where we are ourselves without any restrictions , where we speak without thinking and can laugh so madly without any  reason till our cheeks hurt and our eyes cant stop watering . 

Am sure all those who came for the get together yesterday share this feeling .

When i got out of the auto , mind was filled with mixed emotions ... happiness , anxiety , eagerness , and a doubt if time would have changed people ! 

But when i pushed open the door and kept one foot  inside ...... the only thing i remember are screams of joy , wide mouthed smiles , the warmest hugs , the absolute peace ......

Time had changed nothing and no one   ..... things and people were just as we had left them 18 years back ..... 18 years which vanished into thin air ..... and i was 17 again .

When we reached we all had a very good feeling that wow we have a whole day together ....

But before we started talking , before we finished sharing , before we completed the walk through memories ..... the day got over ...

Time ... we will never forgive you for rushing yesterday at double the speed of everyday . 

Am damn sure that yesterday had only 12 hours totally .....the Day just rushed and got over...

Its so amazing how easily you can laugh with special people , how past incident just strike you and you are amazed at your own memory.

Also how easily we were able to share our personal lives , our everyday without inhibitions or second thoughts .... Amazing . 

Years back people who spoke about movies , exams , crushes , bunking class , teachers , parents , home , teasing .... now spoke with the same ease of husbands ,wives , kids, life , stories of happiness and worries ...

Everything so easily shared ... as if we were speaking to our own conscience ..... Unbelievable !!!   

A SHOCKING SWEET  REALITY  : At a stage where life is rushing by without time to breathe ,  and we usually walk into a room and forget for what  we even went there .... Past memories were spoken so clearly , without even a missed out comma or full stop !!!! 

Incidents that made us laugh till our stomachs ached .... past foolishness and madness we shared , stories of crushes and heartbreaks , confrontations with teachers , anecdotes of punishments and apologies ..... teachers we admired , everything spoken  from the heart and so clearly ...

No laptop or diary , no hard disk or USB , can match the HEART  that saves each memory deep inside us  , never to be erased ... even by mistake !!! 

When we reached the college gate ...all of us stopped for a second ... Suddenly it was yet another nostalgic bomb on our heads . And a rush of more memories . A few students were sitting in the portico .... where our favourite bougainvillea was now missing . As we walked past them and they gave us a Who are these guys look ... a feeling of Immense Pride filled our minds .... This is Our College !!! And was our second home ... 

Pictures were clicked frantically in a desperate attempt to capture more memories to last us till      we would be able to meet again . 

The portico , the library ,corridors , department , final year class , our teachers , our world .... 

We relived them all ....

As we started back home , with absolutely heavy hearts and some with even tears ... we made  a promise to each other .... to never let another 18 years separate us ever again . 

Such bonds are for life and to be cherished forever , we promised ourselves to never let situations or people influence such amazing deep friendships , so Pure ,  so Innocent , So selfless , so faithful and sincere   ..... 

RARE in today's world when people are more Selfish than Selfless and  more Shrewd than  Innocent  . These days When you cannot trust your own shadow here are people whom you can call at midnight and be sure they  will pick the call and be with you as soon as they can and trust them blindly with your life !!! 

Yesterday we reinforced the belief we already had with a foundation of renewed surety & absolute happiness . Each of us left for home with so much peace and excitement and the realisation once again that we were indeed the WEALTHIEST people in the world  with treasures of True friends , pure love and gifts of trust and loyalty ...

Touch wood to Us and touch wood to that World ..... where truly all our HEARTS BELONG !!!!