about that moment, as they tried to click one proper picture in which everyone
looked perfect, they smiled, laughed and giggled.
A moment where each of them seemed happy. Little did I know that one day I
would get to be in the same frame as all of them. Now that I have all the
sappiness (Yes! That is a word!) out of my system, I’ll spare you the clichéd
details of how I got to know all of them and how we became friends. It was
like how people usually become friends. People have mutual friends, who meet
once in a while, and if they meet often, and manage to like each other they
might go from becoming “mere acquaintances” to folks with whom you have
lunch at the same table. Just like the usual, it was my story too. Were they any
different from the entire world as shown in movies? – Duh! No.
Were they so cool that everyone in the college wanted to be them? – Well! A
bunch of them tried, but until now they seem to be failing at it. Quite
pathetically, I must say. Well, then you can ask me why you should be reading
this story? – My answer is hang in there.
Be patient and put in the effort. It has a good end that might make you smile,
cause something about these morons made me too! Ok...! After a kick-ass one-
liner I’ve set the tone and you might expect me to narrate how we became
friends even after telling I won’t, as in movies. In the words of my good friend
– “Nope! Not Happening!” Since I am a bad story-teller, I’ll just jump from
one random moment to other with zero sense of timeline just like J.K.
Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts.
We all had this unsaid ritual at college. Every day during recess we came
together and sat on a couple benches at one corner of the café. There was one
table but multiple ideas being discussed simultaneously. From politics to
religion. From movies to life. From jobs to passion. It was all out there. As the
recess came to end, we slowly used to come to this one common subject that
perhaps was completely unrelated to any of those ideas or perhaps in some
unknown way connected them all. And that’s how an hour’s time was spent.
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