Not just another day...

Its amazing how the same day can mean different things to different people. It might just be another day at office for some, might mean an important exam date for someone else, might mean just another day full of parties for some, else might mean another day added to a lazy holiday by the beach for someone else. Well, 23 September 2006 was not yet another day for me. It was a special occasion. I watched D, a very dear friend of mine, get married.

During the wedding, S (a friend) and I were reminiscing all the times we three shared together back at school. It was seriously funny. The way S and I used to finish D’s lunch box in the morning while she just looked on helplessly, the way we cheered her on when she took the head girl’s pledge, the way we always broke every single rule just to irritate D (the head girl !!! ) to the core. I remember she was the only one who did not laugh at me the first day I wore spectacles to school, she was the only one who never came up with silly jokes when I went to school with braces on, she never shouted at S and me no matter how much we irritated her, but just smiled along with us most of the times. Well, she sure has come a long way since then. To watch the same girl get married today gave us (S and I) a totally different feeling.

Well, things sure do change (and am sure this change in D’s life is definitely for good!), but, somehow at times like these, you just want to go back to the "good, old times" just once more. While you hug and wish this friend of yours all the happiness for life on her wedding day, you want to go back and giggle over a dumb joke with that little girl, who first became your friend, just one last time, because things are somehow never going to be the same ever again. Well, 23 September was not yet another day for me. It was a special occasion. I saw a friend of mine officially grow up in a short span of 4 hours.