forever yours mimpi.......completed a long pending job after 17 years!

It is good to hear that you could see your best pal after 17 years. I can imagine, you both would have felt on the seventh sky, while sharing old memories and you both would have become nostalgic about your school days. The old scrape book would have come handy for recalling about other friends and it would have revealed what would have been your thinking levels at that period of time.

I have a friend for 20 years and we went through our youth together having done a lot, , watching movie, travelling, parties in other words we had a great time together at the same time being there for each other all the time. A few years back we had lost touch with each other, although we stayed in the same locality. I presumed that he had preferred to dissacoicate himself from me for some events relating to my past. Maybe it was just that i was in a shell. A couple of months back, on one evening as i was strolling down the road after a cup of tea, there was this guy standing in front of me grinning away. We were overjoyed to see each other. I asked him straight on his face as to why he kept away. His preoccupation was primarly with some family problems and a new business that he had got into over the years. He had tried to get in touch with me ,but the message was not passed on.That is what kept him busy. And i was wrong about him and how ashamed i felt after that. Why did i stay away from him ? One hug from his side and a thump at the back of my neck. Forget it all he said. Leter he took me across to the club nearby and we played a couple of games of snooker, something that we both enjoyed and spent a lot of time over. I had not touched a snooker cue in the last 5 years. And after that we yapped and chatted and shared all those good old days over 3 plates of kebabs. And guess what i ate most of it. It sure felt good. Thanks for bringing up this post Mimpi, thinking back on this made me feel really good and i know it must have felt really special to you.

It is great for you Mimpi that you met and spent some good time with your best friend. I have one very important friend who was my neighbour in years 1965 ,66, and 1967.The day she shifted residence I cried like God knows what![in eighth standard]. We were still together in school, in the same class. After 11th we had to part ways and once again after a gap of one year [it was PUC those days instead of +2] , we were together in B.A. but had taken different Majors. When I was in my post graduation she got married in 77 and after that I think we lost touch for some time.It was in 1989, that I lived in the same flat as her uncle [I was a new tenant in that compound];I came to know that she was in a place some 160 kms from ours and from thereon we have been in very regular touch [though infrequent].I attended two of her daughters' marriages in some God forsaken village and now I am in touch through the net with all her children. Recently one of her daughters invited me to be her friend on Orkut. The day when I accidentally bumped into her uncle was a memorable day.However,we were broadly in touch [through letters]though at that precise momnet with so much of shifting etc we did not know the whereabouts of the other.Moreover, after this we could meet easily, ;I have gone to her place and stayed with her for a day or two.She too came and spent some time with me. Now we are far away. I feel like going and spending three or four days at least with her , but the train journey and unknown place [recently she has shifted to a totally different state]bog me down. All her daughters are married and I thank God for giving me such a wonderful friend. All her relatives know me and were most surprised that the little one with a frock and songs was seen once again in their grand niece's marriage, when I went to their village. They conduct their weddings only in their villages though she herself lives in a city.

A lovely post which brought a broad smile on my face. You and your friend deserve each other. I have a story mimpi which is a long lasting one. Its about none other than my mother and her best friend of since more than thirty years.My mother's best friend is likely to arrive from abroad after four years. They both have almost grown together and were inseperable till my mom got married. Then her friend moved on and settled in the States but she never got married due to busy career. It has always been heartening to see the rapport and confidence they have in each other, as, I am yet to find such a close friend. She is likely to arrive at Delhi after four years. She is presently not keeping very well but has to attend her relative's wedding in another city. Since she is not so well, she won't be able to come to meet mother here. So mom is going to the other city to meet her and that too for just about five-six hours that they'll get together because mom has to come back for an urgent requirement back home. Complicated it sounds, yet so heart warming it is! Isn't it?

Hi mimpi dear! Wow, that's a long wait for the scrapbook! lol..Congratulations for finally getting it done! As they say, "Better late than never!" I think the most recent happy moment for me is finally joining my high school friends in our yahoo group and in facebook. I have a 3 year old invitation from them which they kept on sending again and again for almost three years and finally I joined them. It was great having to chat with them again after a long time and updating each other on the going ons in our life. take care and may all our friendship last forever! lovelots..faith

Hi Mou Sound good that u enjoyed the time Well, i am not sure if i have the same book or Not, But trust me, i am not that good in sense to keep things, u know i believe persons are more important than things. Anyway no such wonderful story to share with u as u just Did Just Enjoy the REUNION Bye

mimpi,you have sent me down the memory lane.my best friend now lives in america and she does come down with her family ,once every5 years.we make it a point to have night-out together,with the salted cashewnuts and pepsi and we bring out our autograph books and all those cards and letters,we have exchanged,during the earlier years(sorry cards,best friend card,etc)it becomes so emotional to part,the next day.our husbands say,"they feel jealous,seeing our love"

It sounds like some wonderful reminiscing there mimpi! I have a friend back in Australia that I have known for some 20+ years now and although we don't keep in regular touch; whenever we do meet up or talk, it's as if we only saw each other the day before! Given the type of lifestyle I lead, it's refreshing to have a friend like this. There's no pressure on either of us at all and we both know that either one of us is there always. I also have another friend back home that I haven't know for anywhere near as long, but we share a similar relationship as above also. Good friends are definitely hard to find, so hold on tight!