Broken Links – The Isolation

I still remember that last day of the college. The first time when no one was discussing question paper after the exam. All were busy scribbling the messages on each other’s shirt as they were going out to be the last messages of college life, of friendship that we all cherished for last 4 years. All of us went to our ways with the promises of calls, messages, re-uniting, partying and much more.

Slowly and gradually all the promises faded away in the long and speedy run of life and never-ending ambitions. The friends, who promised to remain available at any time call, fell short of time to just give a reply on whatsapp, forget about answering the call. Facebook became the only mode of knowing who is getting engaged or married with whom.

Now no one knows which friend of theirs is working with which company and in which city. I feel that’s the cost every human being has to pay to be a part of speedy world where if one stays, one fails. Its not a fault or a sin committed by us. We are just abiding by the rules of nature, or better say the world. But in the crowd where many come as friends and many leave as strangers, there are still a handful of hands always ready to atleast ask how are you…Whats up.. How is life. There are still some hands who will poke you once in three months to see if you are really doing fine.

The unbreakable links of the past are now broken but still I carry some pieces of that chain with me. Earlier a life surrounded by wellwishers used to seem disturbed by isolation but now at the time, when isolation is the best buddy, an interference of a known face, showing up after a long time, seems to be a ‘what the fuck!!’ moment.

But as it is said Change is the rule of nature. Places in life never remain vacant. One leaves and the other occupies. But somewhere a memory deep buried inside the heart takes you back when the mobile used to beep with the message – “Send it to all of your friends whom you never want to lose……………………..………..”