Nervous, happy and then nostalgic

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.