Bouncing people

When Atanu told me that he might be shifting to Kolkata after marriage, for a second something struck me..... I thought, "Atanu is leaving, Dev has given a few interviews in Mumbai & might also get relocated, Shagun's a drifter, Upasna is not here, Rachna is also too busy with her life, Gupta is a gonner, Shankar is too self obsessed, Arihant is now in Bangalore......"

It was staring at me. My next bounce from people. You keep bouncing from one person to another or from many to many others. There are few constants and many variables. It happens all the time. It happened in college, then in Post Grad, in Job & now life in general.

You build your relationships, grow old with them, learn together, but somehow the people around you never stay forever. I guess there are a few exceptions here and there, but I dont think that its possible to stay immobile in life and progress. You got to move on. Over time with certain people you become possessive and then when these people move out on their own you just are left with no option but to seek newer and enriching relations.

My parents spent a bulk of their lives in delhi and since my father worked in Delhi Government his friend circle remained fairly permanent. But in my case, since my PG, there have been a multitude of people that I have met at various cities and grown old with. Delhi, Nashik, Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and then back to Delhi.

There was this initial fear, when I heard what Atanu said, but then I realised that I have done this far too many times. Each time its been an amazing journey where I have lost myself totally in the character of the people I met only to find myself again......... colored with several shades of the people I met..