Hastalabista baby

I can’t hold you long and keep you within my reach as you have your own destination. The years and moments I had shared with you is probably the golden era in my life. There are innumerable moments which of course will pinch me in the days to come. Everyone has their own responsibility and goal so in the course or pursuing them, you are leaving.

I still clearly remember the day when we first talked. It was my first day in Bhanubhakta School. Being a very new school and totally new environment I had no friends and I was just walking around the garden with my sister and there was no single familiar face around. Everyone was a stranger to me. Just then you appeared. You were with your friends and the only face in a sea of strangers was yours, as we were from the same locality. I had seen you running away after kites in the barren fields, wrestling with your friends in mud, jumping off of the roof of halfway constructed houses and some sorts of other naughty activities. I was in a hostel back then and I used to see you all the time from my hostel’s compound. We never had an opportunity to be friends because I was like a prisoner inside the school’s hostel but I had noticed your restless plays around my school’s compound.

Then you came up to me and my sister and the words you said were, “you’re from fairyland (my previous school), right? You don’t have any friends here so come with us”. After the indication of the end of the break, you went away to your class and so did we. It was the first day in my new school and while returning, you, I and my sister, we all came home together. We talked a lot about comic characters. On the way home, you told me that you had been a member in a book store which lets the members take away comics for a day or two. There was a nagraj comic (I still remember it was Nagraj aur Toofan Joo) which I wanted to take but the store owner did not let you pick that because you had not returned a couple of comics. I also remember what you said at that moment, “Samundra I have this one at home, you can take it from there”, actually you did not have that one. Lol

I also remember you coming to my place and I used to play guitar while you sang. In fact we were trying to form a band. Haha.. I will always remember “Hey Jude” and “Norwegian Wood” practice sessions. While we were really practicing hard you would leave the room with some silly excuses and you used to go out to a small restaurant and gulp a glass of wine and come back to the practice. I was quite aware that you would go and drink wine, but my friend I had to act as if I really knew nothing and I had to respond to your silly excuses in an innocent manner.

But man, these are some important things which you need to know:

1. We were hit by a motorcycle in the city’s most crowded junction at Jamal. It was your fault.
2. We had a motorcycle accident at Lainchour and it was your fault again.
3. The moment when your wife was leaving and you were completely out of sense. You did not even recognize me.
4. You never returned my favorite CDs.
5. You owe me a lot of money hahaha….

Uff…. I am literally getting into those good old times. But the thing is that, you are now leaving. It’s been more than a decade and we never had bitter relationship between us.

All right, all right. Nothing lasts forever and the time has come for me to bid you farewell. I am not sure if we’ll meet again in the future, but you have been the best of my friends and if I don’t miss you, I don’t have a heart.

Good luck. Hastalabista baby……

(Why would my good friends leave me on Fridays? Damn it! Fridays hurt me now. I hate Fridays)