GENERATION GFRIENDP

20 years here and there. A lot has changed but it’s still the same. The priorities have changed, but the habits remain same. 

This one’s not about love..

Neither about darkness, rickshaw drivers, sexism or nostalgia.

This time it’s about gap. A gap that, we popularly call the generation gap. But from the bird’s eye view it’s a mirage. The ideologies and the things that were done in a particular way in THOSE TIMES were way better or are way old school. The ones deciding the either of the two with the amount of intensity is what defines the length of the gap.

But one thing never changes, no matter from what generation you belong to.

You both got introduced to each other. It was a good start. You grew fond of each other. Shared a lot of secrets. Later on lived up to being part of some of the most confidential ones. Almost met every day. Some jokes and some nuances have been signatures of your individual personalities, but exclusively for him.

Some instances, embarrassing or otherwise end up creating memories that you cherish some years later that our today’s generation popularly call “INSIDERS”

You come to a stage where you both have claimed and proven to be the Best Friend for each other. Even the other friends around you have a fair idea about your bond with him. But the real test of your friendship is when your regular rendezvous meets are not possible i.e Schools and Colleges decide to graduate you.

Now what! The promises that, you will always stay in touch kind of cliché bullshit. Even after school/college, if you both attempt to keep in touch, and actually do.

Then you have achieved a “Friend” which our current generation terms as “BFF”

A person who sat beside you for almost 3-4 years. Suddenly shifted to Pune, or wherever your best friend might be right now. When you are in deep shit and have no way out of it, but you make one call to Pune at 2 am and with his eyes half closed and GRE class the next day at 7.15 am talks to you for an hour and half just to make sure that you don’t lose your cool.

That’s when you have earned a “Friend” which our current generation calls “BAE” (which actually means Before Anything Else)

In a schedule, where you are so caught up and do not have time to even breathe, taking out an hour or two for a drive at Carter Road/ Worli Seaface/ Tekdi is the best way to bring peace to your mind. Those couple of hours, provides you fuel to handle two more months of hectic schedule and exhausting work.

That’s when “A friend in need, is THE friend indeed”

This is the beauty of having a friend like this, regardless of the generation you belong to.

20 years here and there. 

It doesn’t matter.