The Reunion

After months of separation, weeks of planning and days of excitement, we finally embarked upon the over night trip to a luxury resort in the outskirts of the city.

Gang mates were back to the adda-city. Some for internships or entrance exams, while the localites worked hard to manage holidays.

As we entered, we were welcomed by a few hiccups here and there, but once we started with the fun, we were on a roll.

Off late, I have been missing my college life and keep compareing it to the new office group that I'm a part of. The two groups have diverse tempraments. While the college group is more cooperative and mostly broke, the office group is high on ego and almost always broke.

Though you don't really get much choice, when it comes to choosing your group, being in a group, can teach you a lot about yourself and others.

After months of hanging out with the office bunch, the college gang outing came as a breath of fresh air.

I was content. I didn't want anything else in the whole world, for those two days that I could be with my friends. But something wasn't adding up. There was a sense of a void in the air. We were all the same, yet very different.

The fun wasn't the same. The affection that bound all of us, was drifting apart. We still loved one another, but some where down the line, we had lost our spark.

It was amazing to me, how a year long gap could bring about so much change in each of us. Work, studies, competition,  priorities, everything had shuffled for each one. Our experiences define our personality. Why were we not the same anymore?

I repeated that question in my head over and over again. The space was so complicated. I didn't know if I should enjoy the moment or worry about why I couldn't really enjoy the moment...

I then decided to embrace the change that had come about. Sometimes, we have to make peace with the fact that people are not always the same, they change, their circumstances and times also change. The best we can do is adapt and let go.

Later, I asked myself, "Am I still the same naive girl, my friends knew and loved?"
Have I not become smarter by shades-a change that my job brought about in me?  Yes, I certainly had changed.

The trip taught me quite a few lessons about love and life. An enlightenment that only a Reunion could make plausible.