Friends

Friendship is a marvellous situation in life. And those real friends, who will always be your friends regardless of how rarely you meet up and speak, are wonderful people indeed. Thank God for them. Yesterday I spent a good 4 hours chatting to such a good friend. An old friend from almost 10 years back. It is scary when I think of it this way: there are people I met as an adult and I've known them for almost 10 years. My, my, my, I am growing old.

And I am lucky enough to be able to say that I have more than one such friend. We have all gone our own ways and are living our lives far away from each other, but we are still good friends. We meet every so often and then it is like we never moved apart. It is great.

Yesterday was one such occasion. I had not spoken to this particular friend since November and that was a 5 min chat cos we were both busy. And yesterday it was like no time at all had passed. And in July I'll meet up with another one of these old friends. We're meeting at a conference. And I can bet anything that I'll be spending every spare moment of my time with her rather than with friends from the lab here. I am looking forward to that meeting too.