Old friends... The very word makes you feel that you are old! Well how do you call some friends 'old friends'? Perhaps we use it to call those whom we meet after many years... At least, thats how I want to use it.
Now in my workplace, which happens to be a capital of one of country's states, I met many old friends. Some I met after a decade, and others a few years shy of that... Now when I again say the word 'decade' to myself I wonder how long is ten years? It is supposed to be long long time but I am only 23! It sounds so long back but I don't feel its so long back! Ok, it doesn't look like just yesterday, but still not so far off! I don't feel a decade is a decade far off!
They were my school mates and it has been eight years since I left school! But again, I can remember their faces as though I had seen them just few days back... It looks more like I am meeting them after a one month long vacation! And when we now talk of those 'old days' I suddenly wonder how old we really were then! And how old we are really now!? But then, those are days gone by... we can't get them back however much we might wish them to! We have to move on... But this time we'll take along our 'old friends' along with us. That will no longer make them 'old friends'. They will be with us, our present friends.
