In school myself and Radha were close #friends. We used to discuss our personal level #problems along with day to day problems we faced, in academic world -in each chapter -each subject .
In our friendship bond, we used to #respect each other Very much. I will always bring extra sandwich/ parantha for my friend for lunch. Radha will bring extra Dosa, idli for me for lunch.Very fondly we used to share lunch together.
Our interest in co- curricular activities were also on same frequency. Debate was our favourite co -curricular activity. We both will sit and structure our speeches.We used to learn classical #music from same teacher.
I got admission in good university college for B.Sc (Hons) degree. My friend Radha did coaching for NEET examination and got admission in one of good #medical college of city.
Life of both friends(myself-Radha) was very busy in our respective #colleges .We could hardly get time/opportunity to meet each other in person.That was not the time of #mobile phones also. Therefore only communication was through exchange of #letters.
As luck would have it, I met Radha after 5 yrs. Radha was general #physician now, and was planning to join in good hospical as physician. I was about to join #Ph.D program in good institution.
I was very happy to meet Radha but I found she is a different person all together. Her political and personal beliefs were entirely different from me.
I did realise that all this difference in personality of Radha was all because the people she was surrounded in medical college ,books she read and news consumed and movies she watched was much different from mine.Therefore though in our lives we were together at some point but now we were #driffted apart from that point. It was positive in a way that we were different individuals with unique personality traits. Only thing common was our past experiences, we shared together.We had sweet #memories of those unique experiences.
Now when I look back I find, I still have sweet memories of my friend Radha still with me.
Radha is stelled in US now. Sometime we do exchange pleasant messages but we never try to impose our old #friendship on each other. Of course we both respect each other.
It so happen Sometimes husband /wife make this mistake in their relationship. One expect other person to be same or change on same #frequency as he/ she is #changing. This is not always possible. Best is to #accept and respect each other even if you have difference of opinion and grow in life.
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Sukarma Thareja
Alumnus IITK
India
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