I met a female friend who was also my school
batch mate & now married with one of my batch mates & also has a son. Although
we both may have seen each other many times after passing our school but we
never spoke. Today for some reasons we had to converse.
I spoke to her normally without exchanging any pleasantries
& not in a way one would converse with his old batch-mate as I thought that
she won’t recollect that we both were in the same class once upon a time. Her
husband who was also my batch mate was present & I was extremely nervous in
front of them as her husband & I were & are still good friends.
She said
to her husband “Srikant never speaks” I was a bit shocked to find that she
still remembers me. I asked "what should I say?"
Many people want attention & want to be
noticed & remembered but I’ve always been its opposite. Since birth I’ve
always preferred to have a low profile & I prefer to never be remembered.
In school also I preferred to never be known maybe because I suffer from
anthropophobia :). I
find it a strange as even after a keeping a low profile for so many years many
of my old batch mates still remember me.
I was always a shy guy in school & didn’t
have many friends. I even used to sit on the last bench so that I won’t get
noticed. I wasn’t a special one at studies but I was an essential one to many &
maybe because of that so many still remember me even after so many years.
We talked about some of our other batch mates
& we both were shocked to know about the milestones they’ve reached as in
school they were so different.
Although I had a nice time speaking with her I
was nervous & equally happy at the same time. I was nervous because after a
long time we were conversing & happy also for the same reason. After the moment
was over I don’t know why but I felt nostalgic.
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