Dear friend,
This is not a sudden piece of information that I want to just throw on your face but just a gentle reminder that you are my friend and I am yours. So, let's start, last night was something of a remainder that I am a just an ordinary human being who simply has a great amount of problems which are not simply great per se.
After a banter at my favorite coffee café which I don't want to go in detail I left it and was walking in any direction with random thoughts and I ended up at riverfront at 2 am and sat on a stone chair. I was having this strange and loud thoughts about giving up and submerging in water that was slightly below from where I was sitting. I also thought of you and all the friends we had but nowadays my mind just doesn't want to remember that time and just want to shut off. I wanted to jump but suddenly a voice came piercing my ears and when I turned around I saw an above average heighted female who was tired by the looks as she was holding the handle of an active whose fuel might have ran out.sh parked it on the road and came towards me and said hey, can I use your phone mine is discharged and my activa ran out of fuel.
I as a anyone gave her my phone and she dialed from my broken screen Motorola phone. She was looking anxious but yet not completely freaked out. '
no one is answering' said she
'Well it's 2 am' I thought.
She signaled me 'one more time'
I nodded 'okay'
She dialed few times and after limited tries she handed me my phone.
'looks like everyone is sleeping' said she with a sad tone. 'do you by any chance happen to know any petrol pump open around this time?'
'well, I don't know any' I said but then I thought for a second and told her that I can search it for her and she nodded.
I took out my phone and searched for 24-hour petrol pump and was surprised to see so many results on google maps.
'closest is 2 km straight and the right' said I.
She looked at the road and said 'ok, thanks'
I saw her leaving with her activa in her hand being dragged. I felt somewhat odd leaving her like that and I thought I can help someone before you know submerging myself in waters and postpone my bereavement a bit.
'hey' I shouted and she turned back and said 'yeah'
'Can I walk you to petrol pump or near it, you may not remember the route of petrol pump' said I.
It's no problem, I can manage.
'How?' I said sarcastically 'and your friends might call and I am also going to that way only so please just let me walk besides you'
She thought for a second and said 'Okay if you say so'
Me and she started walking on the road of riverfront and I pulled my phone jut to confirm the shortest possible route. I was scrolling and she said "I am Shivani by the way"
"Hardik here"
'If I may ask what were you doing late night at the riverfront without any vehicle.'
'Nothing just walking and stuff' said I with some hesitation.
She was clearly tired of dragging the activa and I was about to ask her to switch but I didn't and I don't know why?
I was walking besides her and a slow breeze came and swayed her hair which was odd and unsettling.
An awkward silence was dead set in the air, only dog's barking was heard. She stopped after walking few minutes while her hands still on activa. 'can i also call someone' asked she. I nodded yes. She stood the activa on stand.
I took my phone out and gave it to her and the light of screen was glittering on her face. She said while scrolling down.
"Place is pretty far. Are you sure it won't be a trouble"?
'You know I am a nice person' whispered I mockingly.
She saw me and blushed.
I dragged the activa for some time and out of nowhere she murmured something.
'do you think friends stays forever"
'Hu huh'
'nothing, just random train of thoughts'
'You know they drifts away'
'What'
'Friends, they drift away. Nothing is constant expect change. Friends who promised to be together in college and life tends to go away. They are just temporary people who are there for some part of your life'
'Well what an optimistic view' said she with a mocking smile on her face and after seeing a smile on her face my face also lit up.
'well I have had some experience in that field' said I.
'well, I had a fight with my friend Sia earlier but that doesn't mean she will shut me down all of her life or she doesn't love me'
I am not telling that fights do that, I am saying that time do. Time is powerful and everyone you know that you call "so called" friends will just be a name you will remember?
'Well that's a lot you got going in there, you okay'
'Just doesn't like friends forever stuff. It just feels fake and all'
'There is nothing wrong with it'
'Were you not listening?'
I was but...
An animated android google voice instructed us to take a right turn and keep walking on the road for 200 meters. Awkward silence prevailed as we took turns.
We walked on the path for some time and there was the petrol pump that google queen was telling us about.
She said "thank you, for everything"
'It's okay' said I
She was walking toward the pump but she turned back and she outburst mumbling things
"You know it's not okay and you are not right, Friends are much more than you think you know, friends are just the persons who you choose to share your feeling about anything love happiness sadness anything know this al friend's stuff is all complicated because you think the drift away so what they drift away that doesn't mean that you weren't friend with him or her. That doesn't mean the love and happiness you shared wasn't pure. Friends are the best persons that you choose over time and time doesn't erase your feeling for friends even after he is away. Big deal they are away. They are away because they also want to grow ang go to places so are you but that doesn't mean that friends are not forever'
I was dumbstruck by this. She was holding so much inside her. She left with a thank you and outburst for which she was sorry she told me after she filled her activa with petrol. I was just thinking about all this when she was at the pump. I was so overwhelmed by this and her pride in being friend with another person.
She then offered me to drop me if I was going on same route as she was but I wasn't so I just bid her goodbye and said sorry. She smiled which was prettiest smile I have ever seen. Well my friend this was a long night. I was thinking of what to do now whether to continue previous plan of submerging myself in the waters or not. obliviously I didn't go for first one because I am dumb as simple as that. I called a uber and went to my home, while in uber her words were echoing pretty hard in my mind and I decided I will write something to you as memory gift and so this is it because someone just reminded me that friends are forever and you are friend and will always be.
Love always,
