For my best school buds...

There are times when we think, this is it, he/she is my best bud for life and nothing can change it. Many a times it stands true, many a times something happens and friends are lost and many a times people you least expected stand by you in the time of need and become your friend for life.

In the course of my 6 years at Doon International, I had many best friends starting with Harmeen

Chaddha, a real studious but amazing person to have fun with, Sonam Singh who was an awsum friend but don't know what got into her after she left school and we lost contact, Apoorva Chauhan, an extremely soft spoken and truly genuine friend who I am still in touch with, then came class 9th which was the worst for me and last there were quite a few people in class 10th who made my life wonderful starting with:

1) Yoona, a very cute and very genuine South korean girl who was an absolute sweetheart. She was an absolute gem of a person. I still remember her English sentences which used to lack any prepositions and always in present tense so she would speak like, "what you do", "where you go". She did Maths major from somewhere in the US. We lost touch gradually but I still love her soooo much.

2) Rabia, a complete papa's girl. I remember her crying sitting near our room's window from where we could see Mussourie. We all knew the reason for her crying which was "missing home" but were wondering why is she crying and looking towards Mussourie again and again. So I stepped up and asked her, and her answer had all of us rolling on the floor with laughter. She said, "one of her uncle had come to Mussourie and so she was looking there and missing him".

3) Roshni: she wasn't my best friend but she was the life of our room. She brought in all the gossips, she lived her life the way she wanted and truly has given my some weird yet amazing memories of school. I still remember her pulling out school dress from the pile of clothes lying on her bed, getting ready and then standing in front of the mirror every morning admiring and talking to herself.

The above mentioned were awsome friends but time told me that it wasn't going to be life long friendship. And so I come to my forever school friends. These two people are someone I of course spoke to but never even at a good friend level. The interaction was always very normal and not even in my wildest dream did I think they will be people I can rely on any given day, time and situation. They are Vandana whom I fondly call Vandu and teasingly call "Bandar" and Vidit whom I call mota at times.

So, first I will talk about Vandana. She left DIS after 8th and joined DPS , VK in Delhi. But somehow once in a while we got in touch through emails and that was it. Then after 10th boards when I came to Delhi for break I got in touch with her and I can never forget our excitement when we met each other. She was standing outside the gate (the net gate) of my uncles house and literally jumping and ditto for me inside. Then we went out to Priya's, a famous hang out in South Delhi and our friendship took a new turn. We both took admission in G D Goenka in class 11th and even though she out of blue left school mid-term and went to her hometown to continue but we remained in touch. I remember our hang out at her place where we once got so tired of eating junk that we decided to cook and ended up making something worse than a junk food :D. Even now we might talk once in a month but whenever we do, its just best buds talking and we catch up with everything :). Its been 13years (oh i just realized, its been soooo long vandu) approximately of knowing each other and she is an Intern Doctor now :). Really thanks for being there literally always :). Love u.

Now my other buddy, Vidit. He was there in school till 10th but we hardly spoke as friends, and even thought he denies but I really feel he disliked me for whatever reason :D. He got into DPS Noida and it wasn't like we spoke everyday and became best friends. In fact we hardly spoke and hardly met which stands true even for now but whenever I speak to him, I can be rest assured I will not to get to hear any sugar coated words but only the truth. And this is what makes him someone I can turn to when I need to know the reality about my self and things. Thanks for being there and alllllll the best for the awesome step of career you have taken. I am not saying it because I am superstitious about it but from the bottom of my heart I pray you succeed.

There are times when we make a mistake and loose some real precious friends, well all I will say is if you have friends such as these, its worth every effort in the world to keep them with you forever.