Our conversations haven't really changed. We still fall down laughing so hard that my stomach hurts and my eyes get tears... we get the weirdest and wildly funny ideas when we get together! After all the laughing, we talked about how little kids call us 'uncle' now and only that reminds us of our biological age. Otherwise, we still feel like we are just out of school. Not that we shirk resposibilities! :-)
My long time friend since my engineering days AK, had finally come to Pune like we had always planned... even though I had lately stopped thinking of it as a possibility...
We went to our friendly neighbour PK's house to play carrom board. I told her that he knows Marathi. They started conversing in Marathi when PK realised that he has a different accent. The place in which AK lives was mentioned and immeditely PK's mom said that one of their old family friends Mr.S lives there.
Later, back home, AK asked us, "Does she have an elder brother called A?"."Yes, but how do you know?", we asked. "Because my dad's name is S too and we knew a family in Nashik (when I was in Kindergarten) who had the same surname as PK!!"
Yes! PK turned out to be his childhood friend and their parents were great friends too. They had lost touch many many years ago...
Twenty years later, he got a new job, moved to a new place, stayed at his friend's place, met a neighbour who turned out to be the same kid he used to play with when they lived in some other town!!!
What are the odds of that happening??
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I don't know about the odds but I can say, darn lucky.
Thinking about it, what's the possibility of you being involved in making it all happen..tell me!
The odds are pretty low..but, u know, I firmly believe my world is shrinking & its freaking me out a bit..everyone I know is connected in one way or the other..and its like a spider's web thats either growing or entangling me into it - its a good feeling though!!
There you go, you still think such things rarely happen around me? That might have been ages ago...
hehee, couldn't help smiling whn i read this post,esp since it talks abt me :).i ardently believe that some things,some frnds are just destined to be.providence must have made some larger design behind things,which might be beyond our comprehension...its not just mere chance.
PS: glad to know tht u consider me as ur friendly neighbour :) (i can't b otherwise)
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