"Naked Walls"

Suddenly i feel like today is a day out of a movie.I am sitting in an empty room on the floor.I can hear the jabbing of the keyboard echo.So quiet is the room.Few stuff lying around.Waiting for my friend to help me move.The walls are stripped of any adornment put up in love.I suddenly feel like a stranger in this place i used to call home.I check my mails.And to my surprise I see a mail from my best friend De.Yes we have not caught up with each other in years.We just happen to know each other's little corners in this globe but it has been really really long since we actually spoke about our lives , our dreams , our miseries.As i pen down about her I mention... my " best friend"..Subconsciously...It is always that way with people who might not have been there with you on each and every occasion of your life but people who have actually always been there .De and me were inseparable in school.We were in the same section for ten years in a row.We were contrasting in every aspect of our personality.We were Laurel and Hardy (actually !..) :-) . We loved each other and we competed with each other like we hated each other.We have had our share of fights and our really special times which weighs out much more than any squabble we have ever had.As i think back I am really surprised at how we could be such good friends and such fierce competitors.We were so young but we understood the fine divide and remained forever friends.I still remember days when I used take part in debates..perform poorly and she would still give the loudest clap..The day when the teacher bashed me with harsh words and I cried for the first time in school and she just sat with me silently till I knew that it was ok and things like that happened..Yes maybe we are not there for each other like that anymore.We might have drifted apart now.. Not because of any personal hangups.Life happened.Life has strange way of throwing things at you.Destiny had different things planned for us and we moved different ways.But I always cherish our friendship and the times we had and I am so optimistic that one day in this life we would be the thick friends we were..Sharing every bit of our respective lives...By the time I finished the last line of her mail I was silently weeping and so was she as she wrote me those most genuine thoughts I have ever heard in a long time.
I now realize when you leave a house and move to a next you can probably take away all you have with you and the naked walls wouldn't remind anyone of you.But people who are in your heart and happen to go different ways in life make beautiful colorful walls with sparkling memories.They just make sunshine shine better..Shine On ! Tats what she said to me...(Thanks De for being my friend.. always..)

~A, your mail touched my soul..