Happy Friendship Day....

I am sandwiched between two generations and torn apart between two lines of thoughts on either side….

one that enthusiastically observe all the ‘days’ that are more important than normal 7 weekdays…one that fills up the f.c road, j.m.road to capacity on 1st Sunday of August every year…for them friendship day is a festival to celebrate….a religious ritual to take time off from busy schedules and appreciate near and dear ones…a day of cards and gifts and get together…a day of friendship

and the other one who doesn’t believe in celebrating these days….they consider these rituals as ‘silly’….they say we never had these days to express our feelings…nor we had cells to txt and thank our friends…and even without these tools…we have remained friends…

We belong to the third generation…initially we never had these days to follow…we as friends just enjoyed the time together….and that was all..then it started somewhere in between…and we just fell into line…we started meeting on friendship days…buying a whole lot of bands…and counting the number of bands we have got at the end of the day…it became one of the most important days of our life…and then just we were warming up to the idea…our fun days were over….’we r mature now...no more celebrating friendship days…how childish…all hype of generation next…and on and on’…

Today when I saw happy hands bearing all the colourful friendship bands…it really made me sad and nostalgic…’cos I don’t have the single thread on my hand....and though we do have cells today, nobody has wished me…..and this was the first friendship day when I haven’t wished anybody since morning…HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY!!!...